http://www.liveleak.com/browse?channel_token=f1c_1302955079 Items in channel 'copperdog3' Tue, 21 May 2013 06:21:52 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?channel_token=f1c_1302955079 Thu, 16 May 2013 17:23:01 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f96_1368739243 copperdog3 Baron_Kaz cannot seem to deal with opinions that don't agree with his position. Here is the same post only no comments will be deleted. --cd3 ------------------- Note: For a country which doesn't get things right very often, India is taking steps to make universal health care affordable to all. THIS is something that all of us would like to see our tax dollars and elected representatives working on, instead of making laws (e.g.) to regulate the size of sodas being sold in restaurants at NYC. We need politicians with testicles in the US, not just money guzzling pigs, who wouldn't know their asses from their elbows unless their lobby groups told them what was what. NEW DELHI: Prices of 348 medicines, including life-saving drugs, will be cheaper soon by up to 80 per cent as the new drug price control order (DPCO) has come into effect. Industry experts said the implementation of the new drug policy will lead to slashing of prices of many anti-cancer and anti-infective drugs by 50-80 per cent. According to the website of department of pharmaceuticals, the government has notified the drug prices control order (DPCO), 2013, with effect from May 15, replacing the 1995 order. The new order will give power to the national pharmaceutical pricing policy (NPPP) 2012 to regulate prices of 348 essential drugs. Drug prices control order, 1995, regulated prices of only 74 bulk drugs. The NPPP 2012 was approved by the Cabinet on November 22, 2012 and later it was notified on December 7, 2012. As per the new drugs policy, all strengths and dosages specified in the national list of essential medicines (NLEM) 2011 will be under price control. According to the approved policy, prices of medicines will now be capped by taking simple average of all brands which have more than one per cent market share instead of input costs. The DPCO 2013, issued under the Essential Commodities Act, 1955, will lay the framework of the drug policy and mechanism of regulating prices. According to it, the National Pharmaceuticals Pricing Authority (NPPA) will be the implementation authority for the new policy and the new DPCO. NPPP-2012 took long to finalize due to differences between ministries of health and chemicals and fertilizers. Other stakeholders, industry and NGOs had also expressed their concerns on the pricing model which was suggested. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f96_1368739243 copperdog3 Update: Life-saving drugs' prices set to fall by up to 80 per cent in India India, healthcare, drugs, free, universal, healthcare, Baron_Kaz, idiot Thu, 02 May 2013 20:49:01 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=69a_1367541548 copperdog3 Political correctness has turned and started eating its own tail. It is finally possible to offend a redneck. --cd3 Original link: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/05/02/arizona-school-holds-duck-dynasty-inspired-redneck-day/ The student council at an Arizona school may be big fans of "Duck Dynasty," but it seems they took their love of the show too far when they instituted a "Redneck Day." The day was supposed to prompt kids at Queens Creek High School to dress like members of the reality show cast, but instead the day was seen as offensive when students arrived at the school in stereotypical clothing, with one student wearing a confederate flag. Tom Lindsey, superintendent of the Queen Creek Unified School District told the "arizona publication" that the day was meant to satirize "Duck Dynasty" and boost school spirit. Still, some students and local families were offended by the dress-up day, something Lindsey apologized for. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=69a_1367541548 copperdog3 Arizona school in trouble for 'Duck Dynasty' inspired 'Redneck Day' redneck, duck, dynasty, confederate, baloney Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:50:50 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=98c_1367372513 copperdog3 Source: http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2013/04/case-worker-illegal-aliens-got-food-stamps-by-the-vanload/ For decades the U.S. government has knowingly given illegal immigrants food stamps, according to a former certification case worker who denounced the costly practice back in the 1980s but was essentially ordered to keep a lid on it. The retired assistant case manager, Craig McNees, was in charge of vetting food-stamp applicants in north Florida and Indiana in the '80s and says the program was infested with fraud and corruption that was perpetually ignored by management. "Illegals would come in by the vanload and we were told to give them their stuff," McNees said. "Management knew very well they were illegal. It was so rampant that some employees would tell their illegal relatives to come get food stamps." McNees contacted Judicial Watch after reading documents obtained by JW from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) detailing how the agency is working with the Mexican government to promote participation by illegal aliens in the U.S. food stamp program. The effort includes a Spanish-language flyer provided to the Mexican Embassy by the USDA ensuring that Mexicans in the U.S. don't need to declare their immigration status to get financial assistance from Uncle Sam. The documents ignited outrage considering the nation's food stamp program has exploded under President Obama, who claims there are too many "food insecure households" in America. To correct the problem the administration has spent millions on ad campaigns promoting food stamps and has rewarded states with multi-million-dollar bonuses for signing up recipients. It's been quite effective because American taxpayers spent an astounding $80.4 billion on the program in 2012 and a record number of people-46 million and growing-get free groceries from Uncle Sam. The retired case worker who contacted JW says in the three years he worked in a Sarasota food-stamp office, he found more than 500 cases of fraud but management ignored them all instead pushing a yearly quota. "They just said that if we don't give out as many as last year, we don't get our money," McNees said. "It was crazy, like a three-ring circus; like the inmates were running the asylum." Decades later it seems little has changed as Obama promotes the program like there's no tomorrow. In fact, last summer a federal audit revealed that many who don't qualify for food stamps receive them under a special "broad-based" eligibility program that disregards income and asset requirements. That means American taxpayers are getting stuck with a multi-million-dollar tab to feed hundreds of thousands who can well afford to feed themselves. Adding insult to injury, last spring the USDA Inspector General revealed that many food-stamp recipients use their welfare benefit to buy drugs, weapons and other contraband from unscrupulous vendors. Some trade food stamps for reduced amounts of cash, the USDA watchdog told Congress, disclosing that the fraud has cost taxpayers nearly $200 million. None of this surprises McNees, who claims he witnessed so much fraud as a food-stamp case worker that he "could write a book." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=98c_1367372513 copperdog3 Case worker: Illegal aliens got food stamps by the "vanload" food stamps, illegal, fraud, outrage, bravo sierra, infraction point, infraction point, and infraction point Thu, 28 Mar 2013 10:00:30 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2b7_1364475938 copperdog3 by Michael Rosenfield, WBZ-TV http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/03/27/dodgeball-removed-from-windham-nh-schools/ WINDHAM, N.H. (CBS) - Dodgeball has been bounced in Windham. The classic gym class game has been a rite of passage for years, but dodgeball may have met its match in the form of the Windham School board, which at a recent meeting voted 4-1 to end dodgeball and other so-called "human target" activities, games with names like bombardment and slaughter. "It's almost turning into a nanny state," said school board member Dennis Senibaldi, the one school board member who voted against the ban. "What happens when they replace that game with something different that another group doesn't want to play, do we eliminate that group of games?" The school district tells WBZ-TV a handful of parents had complained about bullying-that their kids were targeted during dodgeball-the district then studied the issue, and a special committee recommended the games be ended. "I think they're really fun because they're just soft balls so it doesn't hurt if it hits you," said sixth-grade student Lindsey Stagg. Stephanie Wimmer, the school board's vice chair, tells WBZ-TV the board is always "looking at our curriculum" for changes. Parents outside Windham schools today had mixed thoughts. "There's a lot of organized games that they could be playing that don't entail trying to physically hurt the other person, so I have no problem with them banning it," said parent Michelle Allard. Gina Lanouette, another Windham parent, says the bullying aspect is a sign of the times. "You can see how most kids would enjoy it but you can see how some children are targeted more than others," said Lanouette. Windham's Superintendent, Dr. Henry LaBranche, tells WBZ-TV the school district is trying to teach students to respect one another, and the games "create conditions inconsistent with that message". http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2b7_1364475938 copperdog3 Dodgeball Removed from Windham, NH Schools Dodgeball, school, schools, bully, bullying, crybabies, wah, wah, wah Thu, 31 Jan 2013 22:41:19 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=52a_1359689079 copperdog3 by Matt Cover Original Link: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/irs-cheapest-obamacare-plan-will-be-20000-family (CNSNews.com) - In a final regulation issued Wednesday, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) assumed that under Obamacare the cheapest health insurance plan available in 2016 for a family will cost $20,000 for the year. Under Obamacare, Americans will be required to buy health insurance or pay a penalty to the IRS. The IRS's assumption that the cheapest plan for family will cost $20,000 per year is found in examples the IRS gives to help people understand how to calculate the penalty they will need to pay the government if they do not buy a mandated health plan. The examples point to families of four and families of five, both of which the IRS expects in its assumptions to pay a minimum of $20,000 per year for a bronze plan. "The annual national average bronze plan premium for a family of 5 (2 adults, 3 children) is $20,000," the regulation says. Bronze will be the lowest tier health-insurance plan available under Obamacare--after Silver, Gold, and Platinum. Under the law, the penalty for not buying health insurance is supposed to be capped at either the annual average Bronze premium, 2.5 percent of taxable income, or $2,085.00 per family in 2016. In the new final rules published Wednesday, IRS set in law the rules for implementing the penalty Americans must pay if they fail to obey Obamacare's mandate to buy insurance. To help illustrate these rules, the IRS presented examples of different situations families might find themselves in. In the examples, the IRS assumes that families of five who are uninsured would need to pay an average of $20,000 per year to purchase a Bronze plan in 2016. Using the conditions laid out in the regulations, the IRS calculates that a family earning $120,000 per year that did not buy insurance would need to pay a "penalty" (a word the IRS still uses despite the Supreme Court ruling that it is in fact a "tax") of $2,400 in 2016. For those wondering how clear the IRS's clarifications of this new "penalty" rule are, here is one of the actual examples the IRS gives: "Example 3. Family without minimum essential coverage. "(i) In 2016, Taxpayers H and J are married and file a joint return. H and J have three children: K, age 21, L, age 15, and M, age 10. No member of the family has minimum essential coverage for any month in 2016. H and J's household income is $120,000. H and J's applicable filing threshold is $24,000. The annual national average bronze plan premium for a family of 5 (2 adults, 3 children) is $20,000. "(ii) For each month in 2016, under paragraphs (b)(2)(ii) and (b)(2)(iii) of this section, the applicable dollar amount is $2,780 (($695 x 3 adults) + (($695/2) x 2 children)). Under paragraph (b)(2)(i) of this section, the flat dollar amount is $2,085 (the lesser of $2,780 and $2,085 ($695 x 3)). Under paragraph (b)(3) of this section, the excess income amount is $2,400 (($120,000 - $24,000) x 0.025). Therefore, under paragraph (b)(1) of this section, the monthly penalty amount is $200 (the greater of $173.75 ($2,085/12) or $200 ($2,400/12)). "(iii) The sum of the monthly penalty amounts is $2,400 ($200 x 12). The sum of the monthly national average bronze plan premiums is $20,000 ($20,000/12 x 12). Therefore, under paragraph (a) of this section, the shared responsibility payment imposed on H and J for 2016 is $2,400 (the lesser of $2,400 or $20,000)." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=52a_1359689079 copperdog3 IRS: Cheapest Obamacare Plan Will Be $20,000 Per Family Obamacare, vunnables, IRS, health, healthcare, Obama, penalty, tax Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:36:40 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=958_1358789097 copperdog3 Original Link: http://home.comcast.net/~rdsandman/quotes.htm ---------------- "No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms..." - Thomas Jefferson "...The people have the right to bear arms for the defense of themselves and the state..." - Pennyslvania Declaration of 1776 "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined." -Patrick Henry "I ask sir, who is the militia? It is the whole people...To disarm the people, that is the best and most effective way to enslave them..." - George Mason "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom; it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." - William Pitt, 1783 "Americans the right and advantage of being armed -- unlike citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust people with arms." - James Madison "...Arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The balance of power is the scale of peace." -Thomas Paine "Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword because the whole body of people are armed and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States..." - Noah Webster "Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe until a trespass on the Constitution provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents and invasion of the dearest rights..." - James Madison "They that give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin "Arms in the hands of individual citizens may be used at individual discretion...in private self defense." - John Adams "Those who reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it." - Thomas Paine "The great principle is that every man be armed....everyone who is able may have a gun." - Patrick Henry "Let me add, that a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular; and what no just government should refuse or rest on inference." -Thomas Jefferson: Letter to James Madison, Dec. 20, 1787 "...What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify is a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure...." - Thomas Jefferson: Letter to Colonel Smith, Nov. 13, 1787. "However controversial the meaning of the Second Amendment is today, it was clear enough to the generation of 1789. The amendment assured to the people "...their private arms, ..." said and article which recieved James Madison's approval and was the only analysis available to Congress when it voted. Subsequent contemporaneous analysis is epitomized by the first American commentary on the writings of William Blackstone. Where Blackstone described arms for personal defense as among the "...absolute rights of individuals..." at common law, his eighteenth century American editor commented that this right had beed constitutionalized by the Second Amendment. Early constitutional commentators, including Joseph Story, William Rawle and Thomas M. Cooley, described the amendment in terms of a republican philosophical tradition stemming from Aristotle's observation that basic to tyrants is a "...mistrust of the people; hense they deprive them of arms." Political theorists from Cicero to John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rouseau also held arms possession to be symbolic of personal freedom and vital to the virtuous, self reliant citizenry (defending itself from encroachment by outlaws, tyrants and foreign invaders alike) that they deemed indispensable to poplar government.." - Don B. Kates, Jr., Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, MacMillan Publishing Co, NY, 1986 "The right of the citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possilble." - Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=958_1358789097 copperdog3 Some Thoughts on the Second Amendment second, amendment, freedom, gun, arms, liberty, founding, fathers, constitution Thu, 17 Jan 2013 14:52:19 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6a2_1358452014 copperdog3 A somewhat dense summary of atmospheric data analysis. --cd3 Original Link: http://antigreen.blogspot.com/ Source Link: http://theresilientearth.com/?q=content/science-gets-stratosphere-wrong Image caption: Time series of monthly mean, global-mean stratospheric temperature anomalies. by Doug L. Hoffman Time and again the proponents of catastrophic climate change use the mantra of "settled science" to shout down their critics. This is nothing less than blind faith that science actually knows what is going on in the complex environment that regulates this planet's climate. Imagine a part of that system that is literally only 10km from anywhere on Earth, a component of our environment that science thought it understood quite well. Now imagine the embarrassment when a major review in a noted journal finds that previous datasets associated with this component are wrong and have been wrong for more than a quarter of a century. Yet that is precisely what has happened. The area in question is Earth's stratosphere and the impact of this report is devastating for climate scientists and atmospheric modelers everywhere. Scientists have been launching instrument packages into the upper portions of Earth's atmosphere for a long time. Instruments used for such research were standardized decades ago and programs to collect such data on a world wide basis put into place. If any part of atmospheric science was considered well in hand, if not actually "settled" (a phrase seldom used by real scientists) it would be the long term monitoring of global stratospheric temperatures. However, a report in the 29 November 2012 issue of Nature, "The mystery of recent stratospheric temperature trends," says that things are not so. The perspective article by David Thompson, et al., reports that what we thought we knew well we hardly knew at all. A new data set of middle- and upper-stratospheric temperatures indicates that our view of stratospheric climate change during the period 1979-2005 is strikingly wrong. Furthermore, " he new data call into question our understanding of observed stratospheric temperature trends and our ability to test simulations of the stratospheric response to emissions of greenhouse gases and ozone-depleting substances." What is particularly troublesome about this report is the scope of the damage done. The problem involves two different sets of historical data from two respected agencies: the UK Met Office and America's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). How significant the error and the puzzlement over what to do about it is shown in the article's title, where it is referred to as a mystery. The background of the problem is stated by the authors this way: ------------- The surface temperature record extends for over a century and is derived from multiple data sources. In contrast, the stratospheric temperature record spans only a few decades and is derived from a handful of data sources. Radiosonde (weather balloon) measurements are available in the lower stratosphere but do not extend to the middle and upper stratosphere. Lidar (light detection and ranging) measurements extend to the middle and upper stratosphere but have very limited spatial and temporal sampling. By far the most abundant observations of long-term stratospheric temperatures are derived from satellite measurements of long-wave radiation emitted by Earth's atmosphere. The longest-running records of remotely sensed stratospheric temperatures are provided by the Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU), the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU), and the Stratospheric Sounding Unit (SSU). The SSU and MSU instruments were flown onboard a consecutive series of seven NOAA polar-orbiting satellites that partially overlap in time from late 1978 to 2006; the AMSU instruments have been flown onboard NOAA satellites from mid-1998 to the present day. ------------- The widely accepted, continuous record of temperatures in the middle and upper stratosphere going back to 1979 was based exclusively on SSU data. The SSU data were originally processed for climate analysis by scientists at the UK Met Office in the 1980s and further revised as newer satellite data became available in 2008. Here is were things begin to get a bit dodgy. There are rules that scientists must follow in order for their work to be judged valid. The work must be done openly, transparently-there can be no secret steps or hidden incantations. This is because the work must be reproducible, not just by those who originated it but by outsiders as well. Things began going off the rails when NOAA recently reprocessed the SSU temperatures and published the full processing methodology and the resulting data in the peer-reviewed literature. This is as it should be, NOAA followed the rules. But it soon became obvious that there were grave discrepancies between the new NOAA data and the older Met Office data. The global-mean cooling in the middle stratosphere, around 25-45 km in altitude, is nearly twice as large in the NOAA data set as it is in the Met Office data set (see the figure) The differences between the NOAA and Met Office global-mean time series do not occur in a single discrete period of time, but begin around 1985 to increase until the end of the record. According to the Nature article: "The differences between the NOAA and Met Office global-mean time series shown in Fig. 1 are so large they call into question our fundamental understanding of observed temperature trends in the middle and upper stratosphere." How did the Met Office get their data so wrong? Well there's the rub. You see, the methodology used to develop the Met Office SSU product was never published in the peer-reviewed literature, and certain aspects of the original processing "remain unknown." Evidently the boffins at the Met didn't bother to write down exactly how they were massaging the raw data to get the results they reported. Indeed, those who did the data manipulation seem to have mostly retired. "The methodology used to generate the original Met Office SSU data remains undocumented and so the climate community are unable to explain the large discrepancies between the original Met Office and NOAA SSU products highlighted here," Thompson et al. summarize. And the damage doesn't stop there. The data from the erroneous dataset has been used widely to help drive and define computer climate models, the same models used to prop-up alarmist claims of impending catastrophic climate change. According to the report: "Two classes of climate models commonly used in simulations of past climate are coupled chemistry-climate models (CCMs) and coupled atmosphere-ocean global climate models (AOGCMs). By definition, the CCMs explicitly simulate stratospheric chemical processes, whereas the AOGCMs explicitly simulate coupled atmosphere-ocean interactions... A key distinction between the model classes that is pertinent to this discussion is that in general the CCMs resolve the stratosphere more fully than do the AOGCMs." One of the predictions made by climate models is that as surface temperatures rise temperatures in the stratosphere should drop. Precisely why this should be so is complex and not important to the point being made here. Suffice it to say, the Met Office version of the SSU data suggests that the models overestimate the observed stratospheric cooling, whereas the NOAA SSU data suggest that the models underestimate it. As the authors put it: ------------- If the new NOAA SSU data are correct, they suggest that the stratospheric mass circulation is accelerating at a rate considerably higher than that predicted by the CCMs, at least in the middle and upper stratosphere (that is, at the altitudes sampled by the SSU instrument). Again, it is possible that the models are correct and that the SSU data are in error. But the fact that the discrepancies between the magnitudes of the simulated and observed cooling in the tropical stratosphere extend to MSU channel 4, which samples the lower stratosphere and exhibits trends that are fairly reproducible from one data set to the next suggest that model uncertainties should not be discounted. ------------- The bottom line here is that models based on this almost universally accepted data are wrong. "If the NOAA SSU data are correct, then both the CCMVal2 and CMIP5 models are presumably missing key changes in stratospheric composition," the report plainly states. The article goes on to suggest corrective actions to prevent such a travesty being repeated in the future. Alas, the damage has already been done. What is documented here is simply astounding. That which was thought to be understood is found to be misunderstood. Readings thought to be accurate are shown to be inaccurate. How the data were derived is found to be a secret now lost. The impact of the bogus data ripples through past results and, in particular, climate models, rendering old assumptions invalid. What was that line again about "settled science?" This is an egregious example of sloppy science, slipshod science, bad science. How other climate scientists blindly accepted the Met Office's manufactured data, even when their models could not be reconciled with nature, leads one to question the scientific integrity of many of those in the field. This is not acceptable behavior in any realm of scientific endeavor, and when the results of research are used to inflame the public and drive questionable socioeconomic programs the malfeasance could be considered criminal. This is what happens when the race for fame, government funding and political advantage collide with science-the validity of the science is destroyed. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6a2_1358452014 copperdog3 Unsettled science: Warmists Get The Stratosphere Wrong atmosphere, climate, stratosphere, change, warming, settled science, Gore, NOAA, UK Met Office Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:08:36 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=333_1358445522 copperdog3 And so, we need to raise taxes, er, enact revenue reform. --cd3 Original Link: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/01/17/interior-department-boss-reportedly-spent-222g-on-single-bathroom-upgrade/?test=latestnews It's a bathroom fit for a king -- or, rather, a Cabinet secretary. The Interior Department, according to a new report, spent $222,000 renovating a 100-square-foot bathroom in the private office of the secretary. That's more than most people spend on a home -- and the price tag attracted an internal audit. According to documents obtained by the Cox Washington bureau, government auditors questioned the "luxurious materials" used in the 2007 renovation. Those materials included: $1,500 worth of wall panels; $26,000 worth of custom cabinets; and a fridge that cost $3,500. The pricey upgrades were made under former Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, apparently undertaken because of water leaks. But even in 2007, the U.S. government was deep in debt and running year-after-year deficits, raising questions about why the government approved the project. The General Services Administration, which oversees federal government property, told Cox that more oversight is now in place to prevent over-the-top renovations. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=333_1358445522 copperdog3 Interior Department boss reportedly spent $222G on bathroom upgrade waste, budget, deficit, taxes, tax, raise, Interior Department, bathroom Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:50:56 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=000_1357590760 copperdog3 I encourage LLers to view the Washington Times link. Its a fun read. --cd3 by Selwyn Duke Original Link: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/01/obama_supporters_are_shocked_shocked_i_tell_you.html Secondary Link (Joseph Curl): http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/6/obama-supporters-shocked-angry-new-tax-increases/?page=1 My mother always used to say, "Life is the best teacher." Sure is -- and sometimes it smacks you right upside the head. It appears that this has happened with Barack Obama supporters now witnessing their paychecks shrink in the wake of tax increases. And they're none too happy. In fact, they're shocked. Shocked, I tell you. Providing examples of this liberal anger and angst, Joseph Curl writes : ---------------- "What happened that my Social Security withholding's in my paycheck just went up?" a poster wrote on the liberal site DemocraticUnderground.com. "My paycheck just went down by an amount that I don't feel comfortable with. I guarantee this decrease is gonna' hurt me more than the increase in income taxes will hurt those making over 400 grand. What happened?" ---------------- Well, pal, I'll explain it. George Bush has found a way to control Obama's mind, sort of like a zombie. I mean, you don't think the great orator's mouth makes all the mistakes it does (off-Teleprompter) because it's actually controlled by the great orator's brain, now, do you? Curl continues: ---------------- The Twittersphere was even funnier. "Really, how am I ever supposed to pay off my student loans if my already small paycheck keeps getting smaller? Help a sister out, Obama," wrote "Meet Virginia." "Nancy Thongkham" was much more furious. "F***ing Obama! F*** you! This taking out more taxes s*** better f***ing help me out!! Very upset to see my paycheck less today!" ---------------- How can you pay off loans with smaller paychecks, Virginia? Ask Nancy; she sounds like a real intellectual. Curl again: ---------------- "_AlexTM" sounded bummed. "Obama I did not vote for you so you can take away alot of money from my checks." Christian Dixon seemed crestfallen. "I'm starting to regret voting for Obama." But "Dave" got his dander up over the tax hike: "Obama is the biggest f***ing liar in the world. Why the f*** did I vote for him"? ---------------- I could explain why, Dave -- very clearly. But I don't use the kind of language you do. So I'll just say, my good man, that you're what they now call a "low-information voter." And you and your comrades have given us a low-information president. Curl mentions that more is yet to come, when other Obamabots get their first paychecks on the 15th. I'll add that even this is just the tip of the iceberg. Wait 'til they feel the full bite of ObamaCare and whatever else is coming down the pike. Well, as the old Dutch proverb goes, "We grow too soon old and too late smart." Then again, sometimes the age shows up without the smarts. Curl tells us that many liberal posters are blaming these tax hikes on Bush. This is no surprise. I'm telling you, some of these people's epitaph will read, "It's Bush's fault." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=000_1357590760 copperdog3 Obama Supporters are Shocked, SHOCKED, I Tell You..... Obama, tax, fiscal, cliff, shock, liberal, lib, libs, funny as hell Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:24:48 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a1f_1357589476 copperdog3 by Cliff Thier Original Source: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/01/when_seconds_count.html Secondary Source: http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2012/12/us/sandy-hook-timeline/index.html We learn today from CNN: ---------------- At the police station, dispatchers began to take calls from inside the school. Authorities say the first emergency call about the shooting came in at "approximately" 9:30 a.m. "Sandy Hook school. Caller is indicating she thinks someone is shooting in the building," a dispatcher told fire and medical personnel, according to 911 tapes. Police and other first responders arrived on scene about 20 minutes after the first calls. Police report that no law enforcement officers discharged their weapons at any point. The gunman took his own life, police said. He took out a handgun and shot himself in a classroom as law enforcement officers approached, officials said. ---------------- The police station is 2 miles from the school. Might it be fair to speculate that if the police arrived in 5 minutes, 15-20 of the 26 killed might still be alive? If we expect the police to arrive in time to save us from a gunman, we're deluding ourselves. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a1f_1357589476 copperdog3 When Seconds Count... Sandy Hook, Connecticut, 911, police, shooter, CNN, dispatcher Mon, 07 Jan 2013 14:56:48 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=933_1357586849 copperdog3 by David Kupelian Original Source: http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/the-giant-gaping-hole-in-sandy-hook-reporting/ Since last month's horrifying and heartbreaking school massacre in Newtown, Conn., politicians and the press have, as everyone knows, been totally obsessed with firearms. Indeed, President Obama has vowed to impose strong new gun-control measures on the nation - very soon, with or without Congress. Other possible factors - from violent video games to the "failure of our mental-health system" to the unintended consequences of making schools "gun-free zones" - have taken a back seat to guns. Within hours of the gruesome mega-crime, the media had provided extensive, round-the-clock coverage of precisely which firearms, manufacturers and calibers the perpetrator had used, how he had obtained them from his mother, where they were originally purchased, and so on. But where, I'd like to ask my colleagues in the media, is the reporting about the psychiatric medications the perpetrator - who had been under treatment for mental-health problems - may have been taking? After all, Mark and Louise Tambascio, family friends of the shooter and his mother, were interviewed on CBS' "60 Minutes," during which Louise Tambascio told correspondent Scott Pelley: "I know he was on medication and everything, but she homeschooled him at home cause he couldn't deal with the school classes sometimes, so she just homeschooled Adam at home. And that was her life." And here, Tambascio tells ABC News, "I knew he was on medication, but that's all I know." It has been more than three weeks since the shooting. We know all about the guns he used, but what "medication" may he have used? (One brief mini-hoax emerged when the New York Daily News published a story claiming the shooter, according to his uncle, had been on the controversial antipsychotic drug Fanapt. That story was quickly withdrawn after the "uncle" turned out to be a fraudster with no relation to the murderer.) So, what is the truth? Where is the journalistic curiosity? Where is the follow-up? Where is the police report, the medical examiner's report, the interviews with his doctor and others? But let me back up. Perhaps you're wondering why this issue of psychiatric medications should be so important. As I documented in "How Evil Works," it is simply indisputable that most perpetrators of school shootings and similar mass murders in our modern era were either on - or just recently coming off of - psychiatric medications: -- Columbine mass-killer Eric Harris was taking Luvox - like Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Effexor and many others, a modern and widely prescribed type of antidepressant drug called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs. Harris and fellow student Dylan Klebold went on a hellish school shooting rampage in 1999 during which they killed 12 students and a teacher and wounded 24 others before turning their guns on themselves.Luvox manufacturer Solvay Pharmaceuticals concedes that during short-term controlled clinical trials, 4 percent of children and youth taking Luvox - that's 1 in 25 - developed mania, a dangerous and violence-prone mental derangement characterized by extreme excitement and delusion. -- Patrick Purdy went on a schoolyard shooting rampage in Stockton, Calif., in 1989, which became the catalyst for the original legislative frenzy to ban "semiautomatic assault weapons" in California and the nation. The 25-year-old Purdy, who murdered five children and wounded 30, had been on Amitriptyline, an antidepressant, as well as the antipsychotic drug Thorazine. -- Kip Kinkel, 15, murdered his parents in 1998 and the next day went to his school, Thurston High in Springfield, Ore., and opened fire on his classmates, killing two and wounding 22 others. He had been prescribed both Prozac and Ritalin. -- In 1988, 31-year-old Laurie Dann went on a shooting rampage in a second-grade classroom in Winnetka, Ill., killing one child and wounding six. She had been taking the antidepressant Anafranil as well as Lithium, long used to treat mania. -- In Paducah, Ky., in late 1997, 14-year-old Michael Carneal, son of a prominent attorney, traveled to Heath High School and started shooting students in a prayer meeting taking place in the school's lobby, killing three and leaving another paralyzed. Carneal reportedly was on Ritalin. -- In 2005, 16-year-old Native American Jeff Weise, living on Minnesota's Red Lake Indian Reservation, shot and killed nine people and wounded five others before killing himself. Weise had been taking Prozac. -- In another famous case, 47-year-old Joseph T. Wesbecker, just a month after he began taking Prozac in 1989, shot 20 workers at Standard Gravure Corp. in Louisville, Ky., killing nine. Prozac-maker Eli Lilly later settled a lawsuit brought by survivors. -- Kurt Danysh, 18, shot his own father to death in 1996, a little more than two weeks after starting on Prozac. Danysh's description of own his mental-emotional state at the time of the murder is chilling: "I didn't realize I did it until after it was done," Danysh said. "This might sound weird, but it felt like I had no control of what I was doing, like I was left there just holding a gun." -- John Hinckley, age 25, took four Valium two hours before shooting and almost killing President Ronald Reagan in 1981. In the assassination attempt, Hinckley also wounded press secretary James Brady, Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy and policeman Thomas Delahanty. -- Andrea Yates, in one of the most heartrending crimes in modern history, drowned all five of her children - aged 7 years down to 6 months - in a bathtub. Insisting inner voices commanded her to kill her children, she had become increasingly psychotic over the course of several years. At her 2006 murder re-trial (after a 2002 guilty verdict was overturned on appeal), Yates' longtime friend Debbie Holmes testified: "She asked me if I thought Satan could read her mind and if I believed in demon possession." And Dr. George Ringholz, after evaluating Yates for two days, recounted an experience she had after the birth of her first child: "What she described was feeling a presence ... Satan ... telling her to take a knife and stab her son Noah," Ringholz said, adding that Yates' delusion at the time of the bathtub murders was not only that she had to kill her children to save them, but that Satan had entered her and that she had to be executed in order to kill Satan.Yates had been taking the antidepressant Effexor. In November 2005, more than four years after Yates drowned her children, Effexor manufacturer Wyeth Pharmaceuticals quietly added "homicidal ideation" to the drug's list of "rare adverse events." The Medical Accountability Network, a private nonprofit focused on medical ethics issues, publicly criticized Wyeth, saying Effexor's "homicidal ideation" risk wasn't well-publicized and that Wyeth failed to send letters to doctors or issue warning labels announcing the change.And what exactly does "rare" mean in the phrase "rare adverse events"? The FDA defines it as occurring in less than one in 1,000 people. But since that same year 19.2 million prescriptions for Effexor were filled in the U.S., statistically that means thousands of Americans might experience "homicidal ideation" - murderous thoughts - as a result of taking just this one brand of antidepressant drug.Effexor is Wyeth's best-selling drug, by the way, which in one recent year brought in over $3 billion in sales, accounting for almost a fifth of the company's annual revenues. -- One more case is instructive, that of 12-year-old Christopher Pittman, who struggled in court to explain why he murdered his grandparents, who had provided the only love and stability he'd ever known in his turbulent life. "When I was lying in my bed that night," he testified, "I couldn't sleep because my voice in my head kept echoing through my mind telling me to kill them." Christopher had been angry with his grandfather, who had disciplined him earlier that day for hurting another student during a fight on the school bus. So later that night, he shot both of his grandparents in the head with a .410 shotgun as they slept and then burned down their South Carolina home, where he had lived with them."I got up, got the gun, and I went upstairs and I pulled the trigger," he recalled. "Through the whole thing, it was like watching your favorite TV show. You know what is going to happen, but you can't do anything to stop it."Pittman's lawyers would later argue that the boy had been a victim of "involuntary intoxication," since his doctors had him taking the antidepressants Paxil and Zoloft just prior to the murders.Paxil's known "adverse drug reactions" - according to the drug's FDA-approved label - include "mania," "insomnia," "anxiety," "agitation," "confusion," "amnesia," "depression," "paranoid reaction," "psychosis," "hostility," "delirium," "hallucinations," "abnormal thinking," "depersonalization" and "lack of emotion," among others.The preceding examples are only a few of the best-known offenders who had been taking prescribed psychiatric drugs before committing their violent crimes - there are many others. Whether we like to admit it or not, it is undeniable that when certain people living on the edge of sanity take psychiatric medications, those drugs can - and occasionally do - push them over the edge into violent madness. Remember, every single SSRI antidepressant sold in the United States of America today, no matter what brand or manufacturer, bears a "black box" FDA warning label - the government's most serious drug warning - of "increased risks of suicidal thinking and behavior, known as suicidality, in young adults ages 18 to 24." Common sense tells us that where there are suicidal thoughts - especially in a very, very angry person - homicidal thoughts may not be far behind. Indeed, the mass shooters we are describing often take their own lives when the police show up, having planned their suicide ahead of time. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=933_1357586849 copperdog3 The Giant, Gaping Hole in Sandy Hook Reporting Sandy Hook, Newtown, Connecticut, firearms, rifle, gun, control, gun-free, mental, health, prozac, paxil, zoloft, effexor, ritilin Sun, 06 Jan 2013 15:04:52 -0500 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=18d_1357502045 copperdog3 Well, is anybody surprised? Any libs want to contest a reduction in welfare costs now? --cd3 ------------- Original link: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/01/06/welfare-recipients-take-out-cash-at-strip-clubs-liquor-stores/?test=latestnews Credit: Published January 06, 2013, New York Post Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/poor_some_ugar_on_me_0Hq1d3iPnvj2RwpsEDS7MN ------------- They're on the dole - and watching the pole. Welfare recipients took out cash at bars, liquor stores, X-rated video shops, hookah parlors and even strip clubs - where they presumably spent their taxpayer money on lap dances rather than diapers, a Post investigation found. A database of 200 million Electronic Benefit Transfer records from January 2011 to July 2012, obtained by The Post through a Freedom of Information request, showed welfare recipients using their EBT cards to make dozens of cash withdrawals at ATMs inside Hank's Saloon in Brooklyn; the Blue Door Video porn shop in the East Village; The Anchor, a sleek SoHo lounge; the Patriot Saloon in TriBeCa; and Drinks Galore, a liquor distributor in The Bronx. The state Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA), which oversees the "cash assistance program," even lists some of these welfare-ready ATMs on its Web site. One EBT machine is stationed inside Club Eleven, an infamous Hunts Point jiggle joint known as much for its violent history as its girls in pink thongs. Cops have been cracking down on the Bronx club since 2009 and shut it down temporarily in 2010. In July, five men were stabbed and two others shot outside after bouncers broke up a 4 a.m. brawl with pepper spray. The club appeared to be shuttered when The Post visited Thursday. Club Heat, another Bronx strip club that dispenses EBT cash, is also no stranger to violence. A 33-year-old woman was fatally shot in the head outside the club in December 2011. Critics blasted the government for turning a blind eye to welfare's sleazy money. Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/poor_some_ugar_on_me_0Hq1d3iPnvj2RwpsEDS7MN http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=18d_1357502045 copperdog3 Welfare recipients take out cash at strip clubs, liquor stores pole dance, welfare, ebt, strip, club, liquor, fraud, budget, deficit, debt