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Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2012-12-15
- My Daily Twitter Digest for 2012-12-15 – Locum Tenens (Temporary) Dentist – Gregory Cole, D.D.S. http://t.co/TOE44wiP #tcot 23:05:01, 2012-12-15
- My Daily Twitter Digest for 2012-12-15 http://t.co/Yyj6FcnD 21:08:25, 2012-12-15
- Gregory Flap @ Ronnie's Diner http://t.co/j7giEnoD #tcot 15:44:27, 2012-12-15
- 16 miles in the LA Marathon bank. Now, time for some pancakes. (@ Ronnie's Diner w/ 3 others) [pic]: http://t.co/dpLQfcLt 12:12:35, 2012-12-15
- Flap's California Blog @ Flap Twitter Digest for 2012-12-14 – Flap's California Blog http://t.co/LmNzfWFF #tcot 10:27:39, 2012-12-15
- Flap's Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2012-12-14 – Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://t.co/VZvNC8nX #tcot 10:27:39, 2012-12-15
- Off soon to Venice Beach and @LAMarathon training with the LA Roadrunners. 16 miles today and then Ronnie's Diner after. Temps in the 50's. 05:18:13, 2012-12-15
- Flap’s California Blog @ Flap Twitter Digest for 2012-12-14 http://t.co/SDwB2Q85 04:03:47, 2012-12-15
- My Daily Twitter Digest for 2012-12-14 – Locum Tenens (Temporary) Dentist – Gregory Cole, D.D.S. http://t.co/y4CgeWof #tcot 03:11:15, 2012-12-15
- Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2012-12-14 http://t.co/UbUHqdu8 #tcot 03:01:55, 2012-12-15
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Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2012-12-14
- My Daily Twitter Digest for 2012-12-14 http://t.co/NZpAAO8d 21:09:03, 2012-12-14
- Obama: Enforcement of Marijuana Laws Not a HIGH Priority – Flap's Blog http://t.co/16Jp2det #tcot 11:02:20, 2012-12-14
- Thoughts and prayers for Sandy Hook Elementary victims and families 10:09:12, 2012-12-14
- Obama: Enforcement of Marijuana Laws Not a HIGH Priority http://t.co/2z8Rl6EM #tcot 09:11:22, 2012-12-14
- California: Smoking Climbs Among Young Adults http://t.co/WzmyUtu7 #tcot 08:17:41, 2012-12-14
- Sales of smokeless tobacco products jump in California, report says http://t.co/uN8xVKUn #tcot 08:17:41, 2012-12-14
- Political ethics panel accuses GOP Berryhill brothers of money laundering http://t.co/fAViuUZo #tcot 08:17:40, 2012-12-14
- Boehner, Cantor are even more feckless than imagined. Pass two different bills extending Bush Tax Cuts and send to Senate. #tcot 07:40:45, 2012-12-14
- California Initiative backers must come forward, FPPC says http://t.co/bWutKClE #tcot 07:32:31, 2012-12-14
- Obama’s Electronic Medical Records Scam http://t.co/eqElgUyF #tcot 07:32:31, 2012-12-14
- The Morning Flap: December 14, 2012 http://t.co/mh6DaKxf #tcot 07:19:54, 2012-12-14
- Cannot understand with substantive fiscal issues facing the country that Gov. Jindal would be so conerned with oral contraceptives. Stupid. 07:04:24, 2012-12-14
- Re: Gov. Bobby Jindal and birth control = Pander Bear. http://t.co/mtnaWcU3 #tcot 07:02:50, 2012-12-14
- U.S. to send troops, Patriot missiles to Turkey http://t.co/SaQlu88q #tcot 06:52:01, 2012-12-14
- Extremism in Defense of Liberty http://t.co/VsFIZCKY #tcot 06:52:01, 2012-12-14
- Only 15 States Opt to Run Obamacare Exchanges http://t.co/vuDiGnip #tcot 06:52:01, 2012-12-14
- Charles Krauthammer: The right-to-work dilemma http://t.co/aGzUeMHb #tcot 05:57:20, 2012-12-14
- Get ready for the costs and chaos of Obamacare http://t.co/UKT5m9hG #tcot 05:57:20, 2012-12-14
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad ObamaCare http://t.co/L1HkV89l #tcot 05:11:04, 2012-12-14
- Flap's Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2012-12-13 – Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://t.co/5bj1JBT5 #tcot 05:11:04, 2012-12-14
- "There will be days when I don't know if I can run a marathon. There will be a lifetime knowing that I have."
–Unkown
Happy Friday! 04:44:44, 2012-12-14
- Flap’s California Blog @ Flap Twitter Digest for 2012-12-13 http://t.co/lErXB5ay 04:05:50, 2012-12-14
- Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2012-12-13 http://t.co/W2T9glw0 #tcot 03:03:17, 2012-12-14
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Obama: Enforcement of Marijuana Laws Not a HIGH Priority
Why, of course, President Obama is cool towards non-enforcement of marijuana laws.
President Obama says recreational users of marijuana in states that have legalized the substance should not be a “top priority” of federal law enforcement officials prosecuting the war on drugs.
“We’ve got bigger fish to fry,” Obama said of pot users in Colorado and Washington during an exclusive interview with ABC News’ Barbara Walters.
“It would not make sense for us to see a top priority as going after recreational users in states that have determined that it’s legal,” he said, invoking the same approach taken toward users of medicinal marijuana in 18 states where it’s legal.
There is precedent with the President not liking duly passed laws and refusing to enforce them. Examples include the Defense of Marriage Act and the Dream Act with regards to enforcement of the immigration laws.
Now, it is federal drug laws pertaining to marijuana.
If the President doesn’t like a law – no problem. It is no longer a priority.
Sounds like dictatorial type of powers to me….
Here is the video:
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The Morning Flap: December 14, 2012
These are my links for December 13th through December 14th:
- U.S. to send troops, Patriot missiles to Turkey – The United States gave the go-ahead Friday to deploy Patriot anti-ballistic missiles to Turkey along with enough troops to operate them as the heavily embattled government in neighboring Syria again vehemently denied firing ballistic missiles at rebels.The United States has accused Damascus of launching Scud-type artillery from the capital at rebels in the country’s north. One Washington official said missiles came close to the border of Turkey, a NATO member and staunch U.S. ally.Syria’s government called the accusations “untrue rumors” Friday, according to state news agency SANA. Damascus accused Turkey and its partners of instigating rumors to make the government look bad internationally.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta signed the order while en route to Turkey to send two Patriot missile batteries and 400 U.S. troops to operate them. The surface-to-air interceptors will help in “dealing with threats that come out of Syria,” Panetta said after landing at Incirlik Air Base, a U.S. Air Force installation about 80 miles from Syria’s border.
Panetta was unconcerned about possible reactions from Damascus to the Patriot deployment. “We can’t spend a lot of time worrying about whether that pisses off Syria,” he said, adamant that helping Turkey was the priority.
- Extremism in Defense of Liberty – The rise of the Tea Party, and its swift incorporation into the GOP, can best be understood as a response to a dilemma that presented itself to conservatives 20 years ago. In the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the federal government shutdowns of 1995 and ’96, it appeared that the fight against the Evil Empire was Mission Accomplished while the fight to curb the size and influence of the federal establishment was Mission Impossible. Take away the two goals that had defined the conservative movement since the first issue of National Review, and it was unclear what conservatives were supposed to do, and what conservatism was supposed to be about. The innovations proposed to fill this lacuna included national greatness conservatism, compassionate conservatism, and George W. Bush’s call after 9/11 to “support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.” These missions proved to be, respectively: vague and pointless; a project of social reinvigoration to which political measures could make no more than a marginal contribution; and an extravagant ambition far exceeding America’s capacity and her citizens’ patience.========A must read for the weekend!
- Only 15 States Opt to Run Obamacare Exchanges – Only 15 states have told the federal government they plan to operate health insurance exchanges under President Barack Obama’s reform law, leaving Washington with the daunting task of creating online marketplaces for two-thirds of the country.On the eve of a federal deadline for states to say whether they will run their own exchanges, a top health care policy official told lawmakers that the exchanges will start enrolling eligible families starting on Oct. 1.”I am confident that states and the federal government will be ready in 10 months, when consumers in all states can begin to apply,” Gary Cohen, director of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, told a House panel.
Cohen was among federal officials who testified alongside state health authorities at a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health.
In written testimony, Cohen said that while 15 states have told the administration they will operate exchanges, 11 others have opted for versions that will require major involvement by the federal government.
Experts say the number of states planning to operate their own exchanges could reach 18, plus the District of Columbia, by the time the deadline arrives Friday.
- Charles Krauthammer: The right-to-work dilemma – For all the fury and fistfights outside the Lansing Capitol, what happened in Michigan this week was a simple accommodation to reality. The most famously unionized state, birthplace of the United Auto Workers, royalty of the American working class, became right-to-work.It’s shocking, except that it was inevitable. Indiana went that way earlier this year. The entire Rust Belt will eventually follow because the heyday of the sovereign private-sector union is gone. Globalization has made splendid isolation impossible.
- Get ready for the costs and chaos of Obamacare – Nancy Pelosi was widely mocked when she said of Obamacare, “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” At the time, March 2010, Pelosi’s words accurately described the Democrats’ just-get-it-done approach to passing a national health care bill. But now it turns out Pelosi was wrong. In fact, we have to implement Obamacare so that you can find out what is in it.Amid the other momentous events coming in 2013 — bitter fights over federal spending, debt, entitlements and immigration — the biggest story of the year, and of 2014 as well, will be the arrival of Obamacare in the lives of every American.
- It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad ObamaCare – For sheer political farce, not much can compete with ObamaCare’s passage, which included slipping the bill through the Senate before dawn three Christmas eves ago. But the madcap dash to get ready for the entitlement’s October 2013 start-up date is a pretty close second.The size and complexity of the Affordable Care Act meant that its implementation was never going to easy. But behind the scenes, even states that support or might support the Affordable Care Act are frustrated about the Health and Human Services Department’s special combination of rigidity and ineptitude.To take one example, for the better part of a year states and groups like the bipartisan National Governors Association and the National Association of Medicaid Directors have been begging HHS merely for information about how they’re required to make ObamaCare work in practice. There was radio silence from Washington, with time running out. Louisiana and other states even took to filing Freedom of Information Act requests, which are still pending.
- Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2012-12-13 – Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2012-12-13 #tcot
- MichelleFields.com – Rapper’s fans threaten to rape Michelle Malkin for criticizing his album cover « #tcot
- My Daily Twitter Digest for 2012-12-13 – Locum Tenens (Temporary) Dentist – Gregory Cole, D.D.S. – My Daily Twitter Digest for 2012-12-13
- Rapper’s fans threaten to rape Michelle Malkin for criticizing his album cover « MichelleFields.com – RT @chasrmartin: Rapper’s fans threaten to rape Michelle Malkin for criticizing singer
- Obama and Boehner meet again to avert fiscal cliff – President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner met privately Thursday after another day of back-and-forth over tax hikes, spending cuts and efforts to avoid the year-end “fiscal cliff.”Hours earlier, Boehner said that unless Obama makes further concessions on spending cuts, Washington will head over the cliff and into a series of tax hikes and massive budget reductions.”The president wants to pretend spending isn’t the problem. That’s why we don’t have an agreement,” said Boehner, R-Ohio. “Unfortunately, the White House is so unserious about cutting spending that it appears willing to slow-walk our economy right up to — and over — the fiscal cliff.”
- Obama, Boehner meet at the White House | POLITICO 44 – POLITICO.com – RT @politico: RT @jeneps Obama and Boehner spent 50 minutes meeting at the White House today
- Earth to Karl Rove and Sheldon Adelson: Do This – Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Earth to Karl Rove and Sheldon Adelson: Do This #tcot
- Rep. Elton Gallegly and Friends Operation Toy Drop 2012 Edition – Rep. Elton Gallegly and Friends Operation Toy Drop 2012 Edition #tcot
- Top GOP aide: ‘We’ll confirm Hagel, Kerry’ | WashingtonExaminer.com – Top GOP aide: ‘We’ll confirm Hagel, Kerry’ #tcot
- Where big GOP bucks could matter – Mitt Romney and the GOP lost, but it wasn’t for lack of money. They spent a lot; they just didn’t get enough bang for the buck.Billionaire Sheldon Adelson alone donated $150 million. But Romney lost anyway, especially among unmarried women.Which is why I think that rich people wanting to support the Republican Party might want to direct their money somewhere besides TV ads that copy, poorly, what Lee Atwater did decades ago.
My suggestion: Buy some women’s magazines. No, really. Or at least some women’s Web sites.
One of the groups with whom Romney did worst was female “low-information voters.” Those are women who don’t really follow politics, and vote based on a vague sense of who’s mean and who’s nice, who’s cool and who’s uncool.
- Top GOP aide: ‘We’ll confirm Hagel, Kerry’ – The growing possibility of President Obama naming Democratic Sen. John Kerry as secretary of State and former GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel to run the Pentagon is being embraced by Senate Republicans who predict confirmation.”I think both of them will be questioned vigorously but confirmed,” said a top GOP Senate aide, meaning the GOP won’t put up a fight in the Democratically-controlled chamber. That will be a key selling point as Obama considers his choices.Reports emerged Thursday that Hagel, a Vietnam vet from Nebraska, was the frontrunner to replace exiting Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.
- EXCLUSIVE: Susan Rice drops out of running for secretary of state; cites ‘very disruptive’ confirmation process – Rock Center with Brian Williams – Susan Rice drops out of running for secretary of state; saddened by partisan politics #tcot
- Susan Rice drops out of running for secretary of state; saddened by partisan politics – Embattled U.N. envoy Susan Rice is dropping out of the running to be the next secretary of state after months of criticism over her Benghazi comments, she told NBC News on Thursday.“If nominated, I am now convinced that the confirmation process would be lengthy, disruptive and costly – to you and to our most pressing national and international priorities,” Rice wrote in a letter to President Obama, saying she’s saddened by the partisan politics surrounding her prospects.“That trade-off is simply not worth it to our country…Therefore, I respectfully request that you no longer consider my candidacy at this time,” she wrote in the letter obtained by NBC News.
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Rice would not be confirmed anyway.
- Latinos didn’t cost Mitt Romney the election – Republicans have a major Latino problem, but it didn’t cost them the 2012 election.According to a Fix review of election results, Mitt Romney would have needed to carry as much as 51 percent of the Hispanic vote in order to win the Electoral College — a number no Republican presidential candidate on record has been able to attain and isn’t really within the realm of possibility these days.Latinos did push President Obama over the top in several key states — including Colorado, Florida, Nevada, New Mexico and Pennsylvania — that he would have lost without them. (Obama also would have lost the popular vote without Latinos.)
But it was a given that Obama was going to win a higher share of their votes; what mattered was the margin. And in order for Romney to have won the presidency, he would have needed to perform far better than any previous Republican presidential candidate.
- Feds Raise Hackles Over 5-Hour Energy Drink | The Weekly Standard – RT @DRUDGE_REPORT: FEDS TO INVESTIGATE 5-HOUR ENERGY DRINKS…
- Day By Day December 13, 2012 – The Big Top – Flap’s Blog – Day By Day December 13, 2012 – The Big Top #tcot
- Flap’s Dentistry Blog: Just Say No to Magnetic Tongue Studs – Just Say No to Magnetic Tongue Studs
- The Morning Flap: December 13, 2012 – Flap’s Blog – The Morning Flap: December 13, 2012 #tcot
- U.S. to send troops, Patriot missiles to Turkey – The United States gave the go-ahead Friday to deploy Patriot anti-ballistic missiles to Turkey along with enough troops to operate them as the heavily embattled government in neighboring Syria again vehemently denied firing ballistic missiles at rebels.The United States has accused Damascus of launching Scud-type artillery from the capital at rebels in the country’s north. One Washington official said missiles came close to the border of Turkey, a NATO member and staunch U.S. ally.Syria’s government called the accusations “untrue rumors” Friday, according to state news agency SANA. Damascus accused Turkey and its partners of instigating rumors to make the government look bad internationally.
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Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2012-12-13
- http://t.co/sFa0f14c http://t.co/sFa0f14c #tcot 22:25:33, 2012-12-13
- My Daily Twitter Digest for 2012-12-13 – Locum Tenens (Temporary) Dentist – Gregory Cole, D.D.S. http://t.co/PShQrh7c #tcot 21:48:17, 2012-12-13
- Rapper’s fans threaten to rape Michelle Malkin for criticizing his album cover « http://t.co/sFa0f14c http://t.co/6okO3xRr #tcot 21:48:16, 2012-12-13
- My Daily Twitter Digest for 2012-12-13 http://t.co/0CJRAd4M 21:05:46, 2012-12-13
- RT @chasrmartin: Rapper’s fans threaten to rape Michelle Malkin for criticizing singer http://t.co/TvqFNNAK 20:38:23, 2012-12-13
- Obama and Boehner meet again to avert fiscal cliff http://t.co/j3RmNb94 #tcot 18:06:45, 2012-12-13
- Obama, Boehner meet at the White House | POLITICO 44 – http://t.co/0DyymCmz http://t.co/PIu9zsCR #tcot 18:06:44, 2012-12-13
- Earth to Karl Rove and Sheldon Adelson: Do This – Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://t.co/sKJrtjhc #tcot 18:06:44, 2012-12-13
- RT @StewSays: The #Senate is adjourned until 2p.m. on Monday. 15:31:59, 2012-12-13
- RT @politico: RT @jeneps Obama and Boehner spent 50 minutes meeting at the White House today http://t.co/HVPAAQAE 15:18:31, 2012-12-13
- Earth to Karl Rove and Sheldon Adelson: Do This http://t.co/AdLVKJ7G #tcot 15:05:56, 2012-12-13
- Rep. Elton Gallegly and Friends Operation Toy Drop 2012 Edition http://t.co/0wjapMKi #tcot 15:05:55, 2012-12-13
- Where big GOP bucks could matter http://t.co/DiYkNJS8 #tcot 14:25:25, 2012-12-13
- Top GOP aide: 'We'll confirm Hagel, Kerry' http://t.co/FOz3t6lE #tcot 14:25:25, 2012-12-13
- EXCLUSIVE: Susan Rice drops out of running for secretary of state; cites 'very disruptive' confirmation pr… http://t.co/TncZ3zUu #tcot 14:25:25, 2012-12-13
- Susan Rice drops out of running for secretary of state; saddened by partisan politics http://t.co/Kur8w6b6 #tcot 13:51:11, 2012-12-13
- Latinos didn’t cost Mitt Romney the election http://t.co/miuNubC3 #tcot 13:51:11, 2012-12-13
- Feds Raise Hackles Over 5-Hour Energy Drink | The Weekly Standard http://t.co/UtL71vfE #tcot 11:02:58, 2012-12-13
- Day By Day December 13, 2012 – The Big Top – Flap's Blog http://t.co/pERHIRfQ #tcot 11:02:58, 2012-12-13
- RT @DRUDGE_REPORT: FEDS TO INVESTIGATE 5-HOUR ENERGY DRINKS… http://t.co/U3pJcOcn 10:18:06, 2012-12-13
- RT @StewSays: Odd. Carney is bashing the 2001/2003 tax relief–but his boss wants to extend nearly ALL of it. 10:15:44, 2012-12-13
- Day By Day December 13, 2012 – The Big Top http://t.co/V7VFIJfo #tcot 09:22:15, 2012-12-13
- Judging from Sen. Durban's tone re: Boehner at presser, we are not near an agreement on the Fiscal Cliff. Oh well…. #tcot 09:08:00, 2012-12-13
- Flap's Dentistry Blog: Just Say No to Magnetic Tongue Studs http://t.co/S8VPDCeo #tcot 09:05:08, 2012-12-13
- The Morning Flap: December 13, 2012 – Flap's Blog http://t.co/eAYmJeYC #tcot 09:05:07, 2012-12-13
- RT @GOPLeader: The House will not adjourn the 112th Congress until a credible solution to the fiscal cliff has been announced. 09:02:31, 2012-12-13
- Just Say No to Magnetic Tongue Studs http://t.co/cfqZh1Dr 06:35:24, 2012-12-13
- The Republican brand problem http://t.co/hsEE3xAa #tcot 06:20:13, 2012-12-13
- The Morning Flap: December 13, 2012 http://t.co/1th32Jd6 #tcot 06:05:52, 2012-12-13
- California prison phychiatrist under investigation for $800,000 pay http://t.co/PjRzccyQ #tcot 05:39:53, 2012-12-13
- California lawmaker Roger Hernandez proposes benefits for undocumented immigrants http://t.co/JAK9SF3v #tcot 05:39:53, 2012-12-13
- Fiscal Cliff Creates Problems That Don't Faze Obama http://t.co/uK9Y3fPx #tcot 05:39:52, 2012-12-13
- RT @ZekeJMiller Not quite CW, but NBC-WSJ poll finds 56% of Americans would blame both sides if there's no fiscal cliff deal. #tcot 05:09:52, 2012-12-13
- This >> RT @ali Here's something I've been afraid to admit: GOP has few digital people and a lot of people with digital titles. #tcot 05:03:55, 2012-12-13
- RT @ali RT GOP needs to make multi-million dollar investment to close digital gap with Obama, Dems http://t.co/Kte7KBvS by @aliciacohn 05:01:43, 2012-12-13
- The do's and don'ts of quitting smoking http://t.co/JqwOPKEi #tcot 04:59:14, 2012-12-13
- Election over, administration unleashes new rules http://t.co/EwP0UM2w #tcot 04:59:14, 2012-12-13
- Flap's California Blog @ Flap Twitter Digest for 2012-12-12 – Flap's California Blog http://t.co/L4zhzhPZ #tcot 04:59:14, 2012-12-13
- One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
— William Feather
Happy Thursday! 04:41:23, 2012-12-13
- Flap’s California Blog @ Flap Twitter Digest for 2012-12-12 http://t.co/WpL9ScbU 04:05:49, 2012-12-13
- Flap’s Blog @ Flap Twitter Daily Digest for 2012-12-12 http://t.co/3u0hNqAl #tcot 03:02:49, 2012-12-13
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Earth to Karl Rove and Sheldon Adelson: Do This
The Frisky
Why not?
Mitt Romney and the GOP lost, but it wasn’t for lack of money. They spent a lot; they just didn’t get enough bang for the buck.
Billionaire Sheldon Adelson alone donated $150 million. But Romney lost anyway, especially among unmarried women.
Which is why I think that rich people wanting to support the Republican Party might want to direct their money somewhere besides TV ads that copy, poorly, what Lee Atwater did decades ago.
My suggestion: Buy some women’s magazines. No, really. Or at least some women’s Web sites.
One of the groups with whom Romney did worst was female “low-information voters.” Those are women who don’t really follow politics, and vote based on a vague sense of who’s mean and who’s nice, who’s cool and who’s uncool.
Since, by definition, they don’t pay much attention to political news, they get this sense from what they do read. And for many, that’s traditional women’s magazines — Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, the Ladies Home Journal, etc. — and the newer women’s sites like YourTango, The Frisky, Yahoo! Shine, and the like.
Then, how about buying a spot on Comedy Central to combat Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert?
Buy a spot on Showtime to ridicule Bill Maher. There is plenty of material and talent.
Winning the culture/political war, one television show, one website at a time…..
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Rep. Elton Gallegly and Friends Operation Toy Drop 2012 Edition
Rep. Elton Gallegly lends a hand as the non-profit group For the Troops packs its 25,000th package for military men and women deployed overseas, October 2010.
Photo Credit Elton Gallegly’s Facebook.My Congressman Elton Gallegly will be retiring from Congress in a number of weeks, but he is continuing spreading Christmas joy as he has for many, many years.
From the press release:
In a community thank you to military families at Naval Base Ventura County, the U.S. Rep. Elton Gallegly and Friends Operation Toy Drop will once again present toys and food primarily to families who have a service member who has been deployed, is deployed or is scheduled to be deployed.
WHEN: Sunday, Dec. 16, 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m., Naval Base Ventura County, when Santa will arrive from the North Pole on an Air Force C-130 bearing gifts for the children.
WHO: Santa, Elton & Janice Gallegly and Friends
WHAT: Distribution of:
· Approximately 500 bicycles and small battery-operated cars
· Approximately 850 age- and gender-appropriate gift bags with toys and/or sporting goods
· 500 turkeys
WHY: To thank the families who also sacrifice when a loved one is deployed to defend the United States and all Americans.
Interested media are requested to contact Kimberly Gearhart, NBVC Public Affairs Officer at 805-989-9234 or kimberly.gearhart@navy.mil by 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 14, for access instructions.
Thank you, Congressman and Mrs. Janice Gallegly for all that you have done for Ventura County in your many years of service.
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Day By Day December 13, 2012 – The Big Top
Day By Day by Chris Muir
The LEFT’s Big Tent is a clown act.
Haven’t the Big Labor/LEFT Saul Alinsky tactics jumped the shark?
Yet?
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The Morning Flap: December 13, 2012
These are my links for December 12th through December 13th:
- The Republican brand problem – One thing comes through loud and clear in the new NBC/Wall Street Journal national poll: Republicans have a major brand problem.Consider the following findings in the NBC/WSJ poll:* Asked an open-ended question as to what single word or short phrase people would use to describe the Republican Party, 65 percent of the responses were negative, while just 17 percent were positive. (For Democrats, 35 percent were positive, while 37 percent were negative.) Among the most oft-mentioned phrases used to describe Republicans: “bad/weak/negative” (8 percent), “uncompromising/need to work together” (6 percent) and “broken/disorganized/lost” (6 percent). So, that happened.* The poll tested the positive and negative ratings for 11 politicians or political institutions. The lowest rated — in terms of the differential between positive and negative ratings — was the Republican Party, with a 30 percent positive score and a 45 percent negative score. Of the five worst positive-to-negative ratios, Republicans claimed four of them. (The lone exception: Susan Rice with a 20 positive/24 percent net-negative score.)
* When asked who they trusted more in “handling the fiscal cliff,” 38 percent named President Obama while just 19 percent named House Speaker John Boehner and Republicans in Congress. (Fourteen percent said they trusted both equally, and another 28 percent said they trusted neither side.)
What those numbers make clear is that the Republican brand is badly damaged. It is regarded by too many people as an uncompromising relic of the past — a party that lacks new ideas and is, therefore, forced to largely serve as a blockade to the other side. (That’s the biggest reason, by the way, why Republicans should be interested in compromising on the fiscal cliff. They gap between how Obama is regarded and how they are seen is enough to make going over the cliff a genuine political loser for them.)
- California prison phychiatrist under investigation for $800,000 pay – After raking in half a million dollars for being “on call,” California’s top paid public employee of 2011 — a prison psychiatrist from Newark — has been suspended with pay for allegedly falsifying time records, officials said Tuesday.Dr. Mohammad Safi, 54, was paid more than $803,000 last year as a supervising senior psychiatrist at a Department of State Hospitals facility within Salinas Valley State Prison in Monterey County, records show.That amount included more than $503,000 for on-call pay — in Safi’s case being available to respond quickly to emergencies.His suspension was first reported Wednesday by Bloomberg News, which published an extensive analysis of state government pay that ranked California tops in the nation. It showed Safi was paid more than twice as much as any state psychiatrist in the 12 states Bloomberg examined.
- California lawmaker Roger Hernandez proposes benefits for undocumented immigrants – A California lawmaker wants to expand government benefits for hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who qualify for a new federal work-permit program.Assemblyman Roger Hernandez (D-West Covina) introduced legislation this week aimed at illegal immigrants who are part of an Obama administration protocol that allows undocumented immigrants who came to the United States before they were 16, and who are now 30 or younger and meet certain other criteria, to obtain work permits.The bill, AB 35, would enable those immigrants to obtain state identification cards and receive unemployment benefits and state-administered medical services. This year, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a measure that will allow that group of young immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses.
- Fiscal Cliff Creates Problems That Don’t Faze Obama – Is Barack Obama bluffing when he threatens to go over the fiscal cliff if Republicans refuse to agree to higher tax rates on high earners?Some analysts think so. Keith Hennessey, a former top staffer for the Bush White House and Senate Republicans and a veteran of budget negotiations, argues that Obama’s whole second term would be blighted if he allows the fiscal cliff tax increases and sequestration budget cuts to take place next month.
- Blue Shield of California seeks rate hikes up to 20% – Health insurer Blue Shield of California wants to raise rates as much as 20% for some individual policyholders, prompting calls for the nonprofit to use some of its record-high reserve of $3.9 billion to hold down premiums.In filings with state regulators, Blue Shield is seeking an average rate increase of 12% for more than 300,000 customers, effective in March, with a maximum increase of 20%.Some consumer advocates and healthcare economists say Blue Shield shouldn’t be raising rates that high when it has stockpiled so much cash. The company’s surplus is nearly three times as much as the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Assn. requires its member insurers to hold to cover future claims.”Blue Shield is sitting on a huge surplus that is beyond what is required or necessary,” said Laurie Sobel, a senior attorney for Consumers Union in San Francisco. “It should be used to hold down rate increases when it hits these extraordinary levels.”
California officials can take into account an insurer’s amount of surplus, among many other factors, when determining whether they think a rate increase is reasonable. Both the California insurance commissioner and the state Department of Managed Health Care are reviewing the company’s proposed premiums, but neither agency has the authority to reject changes in rates
- DeMint: Obama wants cliff dive – South Carolina GOP Sen. Jim DeMint accused President Barack Obama on Thursday of trying to take the country over the fiscal cliff.“The president campaigned on raising taxes and getting rid of the Bush-era tax cuts, and he’s gonna get his wish,” DeMint said on CBS’s “This Morning.”
Continue Reading“I believe we’re going to be raising taxes, not just on the top earners. Everyone is going to pay more taxes next year in this country, and I think that’s what the president wants. … If you look at the facts, we don’t need more revenue, we just need to stop spending. The president is not going to stop spending. He’s proposed more spending. So it’s hard to work with someone who I think is intentionally trying to take us over this cliff.” - GOP tech gap needs millions – Republicans need to make a multimillion-dollar investment to close a digital gap with Democrats and President Obama, according to GOP tech experts.The party faces a growing urgency to catch up with Democrats; frustrated GOP operatives believe the party is lagging in an area widely agreed to have given Obama the edge in the last two presidential election cycles.“Everyone in the party is frustrated. I haven’t talked to one person who thinks that the Republicans were more successful online in 2012 [than in 2008 or 2010],” said Vincent Harris, a GOP strategist who ran digital campaigns for Rick Perry’s and Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaigns.“There is no doubt in my mind that this is the moment that this must be fixed. The good news, though, is that everyone seems to be open to solutions,” he said
- The do’s and don’ts of quitting smoking – Anyone who has ever smoked and tried to quit knows how addictive nicotine can be. But what really works when it comes to quitting? Several former smokers had some hard-earned tips that might help you quit.Carla Berg, a Winship Cancer Institute addiction expert and professor at the Emory School of Public Health, had talked to hundreds of people trying to quit.”One thing I hear from people all the time is, ‘I’m just waiting to feel ready to quit,’ or, ‘I just need to want to quit and then I’ll quit.’ And what we know is that just rarely happens out of nowhere. So I always tell people if you’re waiting for the best time to quit smoking, that time is now,” said Berg.So what works? Through her Facebook Page, FOX 5’s Beth Galvin asked former smokers to share their secrets.
- Election over, administration unleashes new rules – While the “fiscal cliff” of looming tax increases and spending cuts dominates political conversation in Washington, some Republicans and business groups see signs of a “regulatory cliff” that they say could be just as damaging to the economy.For months, federal agencies and the White House have sidetracked dozens of major regulations that cover everything from power plant pollution to workplace safety to a crackdown on Wall Street.The rules had been largely put on hold during the presidential campaign as the White House sought to quiet Republican charges that President Barack Obama was an overzealous regulator who is killing U.S. jobs.But since the election, the Obama administration has quietly reopened the regulations pipeline.
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- Poll: Obama won 71% of Asian Vote – But Not Wedded to Either Party – Asian American voters came out in droves for President Barack Obama over GOP challenger Mitt Romney, but the country’s fastest growing ethnic group is not wedded to either party, according to a new poll out Wednesday.Obama won an estimated 2.3 million of their votes to Romney’s estimated 900,000 votes, or 71 percent to 28 percent, according to the survey by the Asian American Justice Center, Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote and the National Asian American Survey
- Mark Levin explains how a big part of Obamacare could be gutted during Obama’s second term » The Right Scoop – – RT @JedediahBila: Mark Levin explains how a big part of Obamacare could be gutted during Obama’s second term:
- 5 ways the GOP can do better with Latinos – A coalition of conservative groups is releasing a major study of Latino voters in four key states this morning, and Republicans would be wise to heed its lessons.Resurgent Republic and the Hispanic Leadership Network are presenting the findings of their study at 9 a.m. Eastern. The polls of Florida, Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada show Republicans remain in contention for as many as half of Latino voters in those four states in 2016, but fewer than one-quarter of Latinos in each state say they are likely to vote Republican four years from now.
- Election Integrity Activist Calls for Prop 37 Recount – Another Bay Area citizen has called for a recount on a statewide ballot measure, this time on Prop 37, and she’s being helped by the man responsible for the Prop 29 recount last summer.Lori Grace, an election integrity activist based in Tiburon, Calif., filed a formal request with the Secretary of State’s office on Monday for a recount in the contest over Prop 37, a voter initiative that would require special labels on foods containing genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. (There won’t be any other ballot measure recounts from the general election, since Monday was the last day to file).Having two such recounts in one year is highly unusual, if not unprecedented. The earlier effort came after the June primary, when Bay Area surgeon John Maa requested a recount for Prop 29, the cigarette tax initiative that would have helped to fund cancer research.Now Maa is imparting some of his own hard-earned (and expensive — recounts in California must be bankrolled by the requester) knowledge to Grace. Both acknowledged that Maa has given her strategical advice on how to proceed.
- California Governor Jerry Brown has early-stage prostate cancer – Gov. Jerry Brown is undergoing treatment for prostate cancer, his office announced this afternoon.The governor’s office described the condition as a “localized prostate cancer” and said Brown is continuing to work a full schedule while being treated with a short course of radiation.It released a statement from Eric Small, Brown’s oncologist at University of California San Francisco.”Fortunately, this is early stage localized prostate cancer, which is being treated with a short course of conventional radiotherapy,” Small said in the statement. “The prognosis is excellent, and there are not expected to be any significant side effects.”
- As ‘fiscal cliff’ nears, Obama schedule loaded with photo-ops, holiday parties, golf – Since returning from a trip to southeast Asia on Nov. 21, President Obama has managed to play three rounds of golf but has met face-to-face only once with Speaker John A. Boehner, the man with whom he is trying to strike a deal on taxes and spending that could prevent another recession.With the deadline for going over the “fiscal cliff” less than three weeks away, the president’s schedule this week is exceptionally light. It does not include any time on the links with Mr. Boehner, Ohio Republican, who is also an avid golfer.On Monday, Mr. Obama’s only public event was a trip to Detroit, where he held a campaign-style rally with union auto workers that was ostensibly a push for middle-class tax cuts but mainly showcased Mr. Obama’s criticism of Michigan’s new “right-to-work” labor law.“It seems to me, that time would have been better spent here in Washington, D.C., working on the fiscal cliff, but he was in Michigan,” said Sen. Lamar Alexander, Tennessee Republican.
On Tuesday, Mr. Obama had lunch with Vice President Joseph R. Biden and spoke to Mr. Boehner by phone late in the day. The president spent much of his evening with first lady Michelle Obama posing for photographs with members of the White House press corps and their guests at a holiday party. (Mr. Obama actually has performed this function twice in the past week; there was another media holiday party at the White House on Dec. 5).
- California prison health care receiver issues layoff notices – California Correctional Health Care Services has issued layoff warnings to 2,200 of its employees with a goal of axing 829 positions early next year.The cuts will touch nearly 60 job classifications around the state, from doctors to custodians and impact 38 jobs in Sacramento County. The statewide cuts take effect Mar. 31, 2013.The state normally issues three lay off warning notices for every position it cuts, and workers in danger of losing their jobs can displace less-senior counterparts in state government, so it’s not clear how many staff will actually lose work. Officials don’t have an estimate of savings from the reductions.
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- Rep. Moran: Son’s Attack on Girlfriend “An Accident” – Virginia Rep. Jim Moran’s office has another statement about his son’s arrest for assaulting his girlfriend in Columbia Heights earlier this month. And it turns out it was all an accident, according to Moran, despite his son’s guilty plea to assault.”The situation was an accident,” Moran spokeswoman Anne Hughes writes in an email, adding that both Moran and his girlfriend testified to that in court. “Patrick didn’t hit or shove her.”Hughes claims that only Patrick Moran and his girlfriend were around to see the alleged attack. “They were the only two people who witnessed the scene,” writes Hughes. “In that sense, their statements are the only ones that matter.”That would contradict the police report, which describes both a Metropolitan Police Department sergeant and an Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration investigator seeing Moran slam his girlfriend’s head into a trash can cage outside the Getaway, a 14th Street NW bar.
- Democratic senator Menendez employed illegal immigrant who was registered sex offender – U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez employed as an unpaid intern in his Senate office an illegal immigrant who was a registered sex offender, now under arrest by immigration authorities, The Associated Press has learned. The Homeland Security Department instructed federal agents not to arrest him until after Election Day, a U.S. official involved in the case told the AP.Luis Abrahan Sanchez Zavaleta, an 18-year-old immigrant from Peru, was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in front of his home in New Jersey on Dec. 6, two federal officials said. Sanchez, who entered the country on a now-expired visitor visa from Peru, is facing deportation and remains in custody. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss details of Sanchez’s immigration case.
- Sandoval opts to expand Medicaid coverage for Nevada’s neediest – Sandoval opts to expand Medicaid coverage for Nevada’s neediest #tcot
- Fiscal Cliff: Hundreds of Billions Apart – The bellowing on Capitol Hill about which side has offered more “specifics” to resolve the fiscal cliff showdown masks a larger problem for Washington: The two sides are still hundreds of billions of dollars apart on revenue and entitlement cuts.Not to mention, Republicans and Democrats are also light-years apart on policy details that back up those budget targets.That’s why there’s increasing skepticism in Washington that a deal actually can be reached before Jan. 1, and the country will go over the fiscal cliff.
- Fiscal Cliff: 180 economists oppose tax hike – A letter signed by 180 economists opposed to tax increases as part of a fiscal cliff deal will be delivered to Congress on Wednesday, according to a national anti-tax group.The letter argues that hiking tax rates would have a “significant, negative impact on the economy” and is slated to be sent to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, said Pete Sepp, executive vice president of the National Taxpayers Union, the low-taxes advocacy group that coordinated the effort.
- California Psychiatrists Paid $400,000 Shows Bidding War- Bloomberg – RT @BloombergNews: Why do California psychiatrists make more than $400,00? Examining a payroll system run amok |
- War-making for Losers By Mark Steyn – The new US Army manual for troops heading east apparently blames the tendency of Afghanistan’s US-trained soldiers and policemen to shoot their western “allies” on “American cultural ignorance”. Fortunately, the manual offers a solution:The draft leaked to the newspaper offers a list of “taboo conversation topics” that soldiers should avoid, including “making derogatory comments about the Taliban”…I mean, it’s not like they’re the enemy or anything.…“advocating women’s rights,” “any criticism of pedophilia,” “directing any criticism towards Afghans,” “mentioning homosexuality and homosexual conduct” or “anything related to Islam.”
- Inside the Boehner-Ryan Alliance – Robert Costa – National Review Online – Inside the Boehner-Ryan Alliance – The speaker and the former GOP veep contender are quiet partners #tcot
- Democrats continue to find out what was in ObamaCare–and try to dismantle it | Mobile Washington Examiner – Democrats continue to find out what was in ObamaCare–and try to dismantle it | Mobile Washington Examiner #tcot
- Inside the Boehner-Ryan Alliance – The speaker and the former GOP veep contender are quiet partners – Paul Ryan spent the summer and fall in the national spotlight, but this winter he’s a subdued presence. He’s rarely granting interviews, and his public appearances have been scattered, with the most high profile a speech at the Kemp Foundation dinner. His closest friends say that he wants to return to his work quietly, and that he’s uninterested in playing a prominent role in the fiscal-cliff debate, even though he’s the GOP’s reigning budget expert.
- The Morning Flap: December 12, 2012 – Flap’s Blog – The Morning Flap: December 12, 2012 #tcot
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- The Republican brand problem – One thing comes through loud and clear in the new NBC/Wall Street Journal national poll: Republicans have a major brand problem.Consider the following findings in the NBC/WSJ poll:* Asked an open-ended question as to what single word or short phrase people would use to describe the Republican Party, 65 percent of the responses were negative, while just 17 percent were positive. (For Democrats, 35 percent were positive, while 37 percent were negative.) Among the most oft-mentioned phrases used to describe Republicans: “bad/weak/negative” (8 percent), “uncompromising/need to work together” (6 percent) and “broken/disorganized/lost” (6 percent). So, that happened.* The poll tested the positive and negative ratings for 11 politicians or political institutions. The lowest rated — in terms of the differential between positive and negative ratings — was the Republican Party, with a 30 percent positive score and a 45 percent negative score. Of the five worst positive-to-negative ratios, Republicans claimed four of them. (The lone exception: Susan Rice with a 20 positive/24 percent net-negative score.)
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- RT @JedediahBila: Mark Levin explains how a big part of Obamacare could be gutted during Obama's second term: http://t.co/8r758da6 16:13:31, 2012-12-12
- Election Integrity Activist Calls for Prop 37 Recount http://t.co/B7Mevy3a #tcot 15:44:57, 2012-12-12
- California Governor Jerry Brown has early-stage prostate cancer http://t.co/TMweklxO #tcot 15:44:57, 2012-12-12
- As 'fiscal cliff' nears, Obama schedule loaded with photo-ops, holiday parties, golf http://t.co/NnaSycLw #tcot 15:00:48, 2012-12-12
- California prison health care receiver issues layoff notices http://t.co/ywwkpdd5 #tcot 15:00:48, 2012-12-12
- Word >RT @RalstonReports: Looking forward to part of #fiscalcliff negotiations when Harry Reid demands to see Speaker Boehner's tax returns. 14:18:59, 2012-12-12
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- Rep. Moran: Son’s Attack on Girlfriend “An Accident” http://t.co/XUamY2IE #tcot 12:20:19, 2012-12-12
- Democratic senator Menendez employed illegal immigrant who was registered sex offender http://t.co/8wTBEZPJ #tcot 12:20:18, 2012-12-12
- Day By Day December 12, 2012 – Figures http://t.co/EAjGzxQR #tcot 12:14:30, 2012-12-12
- Sandoval opts to expand Medicaid coverage for Nevada's neediest http://t.co/COOkyD58 #tcot 07:22:19, 2012-12-12
- Fiscal Cliff: Hundreds of Billions Apart http://t.co/Ieke5Xzr #tcot 07:22:19, 2012-12-12
- Fiscal Cliff: 180 economists oppose tax hike http://t.co/fJF5ZXV7 #tcot 07:22:19, 2012-12-12
- RT @BloombergNews: Why do California psychiatrists make more than $400,00? Examining a payroll system run amok | http://t.co/O8bZtYEC 07:04:15, 2012-12-12
- RT @zerohedge: America's patriotic millionaires have donated a grand total $290,195 for Fiscal 2013 (since Oct.1) to pay down debt http: … 06:52:32, 2012-12-12
- Inside the Boehner-Ryan Alliance – The speaker and the former GOP veep contender are quiet partners http://t.co/H4JaBDGp #tcot 06:41:14, 2012-12-12
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- California: A new 'Mad Max' sequel? http://t.co/nqe192td #tcot 05:50:45, 2012-12-12
- $822,000 Worker Shows California Leads U.S. Pay Giveaway http://t.co/Cq1xLFL8 #tcot 05:50:45, 2012-12-12
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- RT @jimgeraghty Reince Priebus says the RNC may try to limit the number of GOP presidential primary debates in 2016: http://t.co/BSpC61cW 05:07:48, 2012-12-12
- RT @postpolls Post-ABC poll handling fiscal cliff negotiations-Obama 47-46 approve-disapprove w/reg votersBoehner 24-54 http://t.co/UisGITq6 05:03:14, 2012-12-12
- RT @jaketapper Latest ABC/WaPo poll: nearly twice as many approve of POTUS's approach on fiscal cliff vs Boehner's >http://t.co/JBHSvDOI
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