A nice relaxing day...
BodyPump (9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.) followed by a shower and trips to the bread store (Freihoffer's outlet), ShopRite, and Walmart.
Late lunch.
A couple hours watching "Dexter."
Now some computer time while I wait for Mary to get home. Once she does I'll make us dinner and we'll eat, watch TV, and discuss - what else - the upcoming cataclysmic event... aka: tomorrow's snow.
Yep. Another "disaster." We're supposed to get between 5-15 inches of snow up here in lovely Orange County, New York.
Ya know what we used to call a storm that dumped 5-15 inches of snow on us when I was a kid? We called it... er... snow.
Well... it figures... after all, ya know what my dad and uncles used to call a "war?" World War Two! "The Big One!" "Dubya-Dubya-Two!" Hitler. Tojo. Pearl Harbor. The Battle of the Bulge. Nowadays... well... are we not in the midst of the...
(*DRUM ROLL*) (*CUE THE REVERB*)
..."War on Terror...?!"
(Hey... how's "The War on Drugs" going...???) (Nah... forget it... never mind...)
The "New" Amerika, folks... ain't it great?
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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_WINTER_WEATHER_AMTRAK?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2014-02-12-07-14-13
Amtrak is suspending some trains as a winter storm threatens the South and the Northeast.
Amtrak says the suspensions Wednesday are meant to reduce the exposure of passengers, crews and equipment to extreme weather.
The suspensions include trains between New York and several destinations in the South and the auto train between Washington's northern Virginia suburbs and Orlando, Fla.
* PUSSY NATION...
http://news.yahoo.com/ex-orleans-mayor-convicted-taking-bribes-190120317.html;_ylt=AqMUn1qyRfFLcqaA5WRGToLQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTBsbzR0bHJyBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMyBHNlYwNzcg--
Former News Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, best remembered for his impassioned pleas for help after the levees broke during Hurricane Katrina, was convicted Wednesday of accepting bribes in exchange for helping businessmen secure millions of dollars in city work, including after the devastating storm.
* ASSIGNING THE BLAME FOR HURRICANE KATRINA TO GEORGE W. BUSH INSTEAD OF TO DEMOCRATS ON THE GROUND WHO WERE ACTUALLY IN CONTROL OF BOTH THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS AND STATE OF LOUISIANA WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST SLIGHT OF HANDS THAT THE DEMOCRAT-MEDIA PARTNERSHIP WAS ABLE TO ACHIEVE. WHEN ONE LOOKS BACK UPON IT... JUST AMAZING.
The federal jury found Nagin guilty of 20 of 21 counts against him, involving a string of crimes before and after the storm.
Sentencing was set for June 11.
* WHY, FOLKS? WHY? WHY NOT FEBRUARY 14? WHY NOT FEBRUARY 17? WHY NOT ONE DAY IN MARCH? APRIL? MAY...?!?!
* FOLKS... UNDERSTAND... FROM EVEN THE TRAINS BEING CANCELLED BECAUSE IT'S GONNA SNOW... IN THE WINTER... TO THE OBAMACARE ROLL-OUT... TO THE POST OFFICE LOSING TENS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS YEAR AFTER YEAR... TO US BEING UNABLE TO WIN THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN... TO THIS SENTENCING... AMERIKA IS BROKEN.
* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-obama-administration-has-a-mandate-on-the-health-care-law-too/2014/02/11/f001df36-9361-11e3-84e1-27626c5ef5fb_story.html
The Obama administration on Monday announced that it was delaying, once again, enforcement of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) “employer mandate.”
Imagine how Democrats would respond if a President Rand Paul, say, moved into the White House in 2017 and announced he was going to put off provisions of ObamaCare he thought might be too onerous to administer.
The Treasury Department released rules Monday for medium and large employers, which under the ACA are supposed to chip in for their employees’ health care.
* UNDER THE ACA = UNDER THE LAW.
The law says they were supposed to have provided health coverage to full-time employees by Jan. 1 or pay fines to help defray the government’s costs of covering them. Last summer, in response to business concerns that the rules weren’t ready, Treasury delayed these requirements for a year.
* TREASURY HAS NO SUCH AUTHORITY. THE PRESIDENT HAS NO SUCH AUTHORITY. ONLY CONGRESS CAN CHANGE OUR LAWS. (OH... WAIT... THAT WAS BEFORE OBAMA...)
That was already a stretch of governmental discretion, but it was defensible given the law’s complexity and the relatively small consequences of delaying this particular mandate.
* NO. NOT "A STRETCH." NO. NOT "DEFENSIBLE." I*L*L*E*G*A*L... U*N*C*O*N*S*T*I*T*U*T*I*O*N*A*L...
This week, Treasury changed the rules again: medium-size businesses will get another year before they must comply, and large businesses will have a softer coverage target to meet next year. This delays any bad press or bad feelings engendered by the mandate beyond the 2014 election.
* AND THE REPUBLICANS REFUSE TO STAND UP AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION...
* AND THE MEDIA REFUSES TO STAND UP AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION...
* AND AMERICA'S LAWYERS... JUDGES... AMERICA'S SUPREME COURT... AWOL.
* WHERE'S THAT DOUCHEBAG GEORGE W. BUSH? WHERE'S CHENEY? GEEZUS S. CHRIST, PEOPLE, DOESN'T IT SEEM AS IF THE FIX IS IN...???
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 2)
The administration claims legal wiggle room in the Internal Revenue Code, which allows the Treasury secretary to make “needful rules and regulations” about tax collection, including those “as may be necessary by reason of any alteration of law.”
* "BY REASON OF...!!!" NOT "TO LAW!" (FOLKS... YOU DON'T THINK THAT THE REPORT OF THIS PIECE OR HIS EDITOR SIMPLY "MISSED" WHAT I JUST POINTED OUT - DO YOU...?!?!) AGAIN... DOESN'T IT SEEM AS IF THE FIX IS IN...?
Treasury has used this provision to justify smoothing out the phase-in of other laws.
* MORE BULLSHIT. LISTEN... FOLKS... THE LAW GAVE DATES! PERIOD! THOSE DATES ARE NOW BEING IGNORED!
But the administration is unilaterally making distinctions between large businesses and medium ones; the latter group, which will get hit hardest and scream loudest when the employer mandate kicks in, will be treated more leniently. The law is also explicit that the government should be enforcing penalties already; that’s the plainest interpretation of Congress’s intent.
* FOLKS... THE LAW ITSELF IS WHAT CAME OUT OF CONGRESS' "INTENT!" (THIS REPORTER/EDITOR IS SIMPLY TRYING TO CONFUSE YOU!)
The administration shouldn’t dismiss that without exceptionally good reason.
* WHERE IN THE CONSTITUTION IS THE PRESIDENT EMPOWERED TO RULE BY DECREE AND CHANGE OR IGNORE LAWS AS HE SEES FIT... AS LONG AS HE EXPLAINS "IT'S FOR AN EXCEPTIONALLY GOOD REASON."?
Fear of a midterm shellacking doesn’t qualify as good reason.
* AGAIN... AMAZINGLY... THE POST IS STILL UNABLE TO SEE THAT THE CONSTITUTION HAS NO "GOOD REASON" CLAUSE IN IT!
Studies have shown that the employer mandate isn’t key to insuring more people, so its implementation is not crucial to getting the whole ACA working. Rather, it’s mostly a revenue-raising measure to fund health-care reform; the first year-long delay cost the Treasury $12 billion. If there’s a less disruptive way to raise that money, Congress should repeal the employer mandate. Until then, the president should implement the law.
* BUT IF HE WON'T... OH, WELL... (*SHRUG*) NOTICE FOLKS... NO TALK OF IMPEACHMENT. THE POST MIGHT AS WELL BE ON THE WHITE HOUSE PAYROLL.
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