Chilly morning!
(*SHIVER*)
Maria woke me up at the break of 8:00 a.m. (THANKS...)
Oh, well... it was a wake-up to a beautiful morning! So... Thanks... in all seriousness!
Oh... speaking of friends... yo... YOU Whose Name Dare Not Be Mentioned... I'm gonna shoot you an email. Give it a glance! News you may or may not wanna know... but sending it anyway!
(*HUGE FRIGGIN' GRIN*)
Got the rental car (upcoming Key West trip!) down to $186... for NINE days... taxes, fees, airport surcharges included... for a FULL size car!
(*PATTING MYSELF ON THE BACK*)
Oh...! Just got a comment on a recent post!
(*CLAPPING*)
You folks can find the comment - and my response - at "As We Approach Another 9/11"
So... today...? Blogging... brunch... a bit of reading outside later... the gym this afternoon...
(*SHRUG*)
Life is good...
3 comments:
http://online.wsj.com/articles/health-care-spending-picks-up-1410463798
* INSANITY, FOLKS... SHEER INSANITY...
The sprawling U.S. health-care industry saw revenue rebound last quarter, a sign that stronger spending at hospitals and medical offices could help boost U.S. economic growth to its highest level in eight years.
* SO WE'RE CHEERING... INFLATION?
Total revenue at health-care and social-assistance firms...
* AND... (*PAUSE*)... "SOCIAL ASSISTANCE FIRMS...?!?!"
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
...rose 3% in the second quarter from the first three months of the year, the Commerce Department said Thursday in its Quarterly Services Survey. Hospital revenue rose 2.8% from the first quarter and revenue at physician offices jumped 4.1%.
* SO... WE'RE APPLAUDING INFLATION... INCLUDING INCREASED WELFARE PAYMENTS... UH-HUH...
Thursday's report showed "modest acceleration in health spending" in the second quarter, driven likely by both "more people insured under the Affordable Care Act and the recovering economy putting some upward pressure on health-care costs," said Larry Levitt, a senior vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation.
* THE RECOVERING ECONOMY...
(*GUFFAW*)
* RECOVERING FOR WHOM? DOCTORS AND HOSPITAL EXECUTIVES?
* AS FOR "MORE PEOPLE INSURED"... AT WHAT COST IN GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES FROM OUR BROKE-ASS DEBTOR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND HAND TO MOUTH INDEBTED STATE GOVERNMENTS?
* MY GOD... HOW FRIGGIN' STUPID DO PEOPLE HAVE TO BE TO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY'RE READING IS HORRIBLE - NOT GREAT - NEWS...?!?!
Economists have predicted...
* LET'S NOT EVEN BOTHER. (FOR OBVIOUS REASONS!)
Consumer spending generates more than two-thirds of U.S. economic output...
* WHICH IS OUR SHAME! WHICH IS NOTHING TO BRAG ABOUT!
* GEEZUS... WE'RE A SICK COUNTRY.
* TWO-PARTER... (Part 1 of 2)
http://online.wsj.com/articles/southwest-border-command-is-planned-at-homeland-security-1410472985
Homeland Security officials are planning to create a military-like chain of command to police the Southwest U.S. border, in what could be the department's most significant restructuring since its creation in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, according to people familiar with the discussions.
* NO!
* FOLKS... AS I WARNED FROM THE FIRST... BEYOND THE SHEER DUPLICATION AND COST ASSOCIATED WITH THE CREATION OF "HOMELAND SECURITY"... THERE'S A FAR GREATER DANGER - NAMELY, THAT THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH IS CREATING A "PARALLEL" PSUDO-MILITARY (THINK GESTAPO - WAFFEN SS) PARAMILITARY ORGANIZATION SO AS TO BE ABLE TO BYPASS POSSE COMITATUS AND IN DOING SO BYPASS A MILITARY CULTURE UNSUITED TO BEING USED WITHIN THE HOMELAND AGAINST ITS OWN PEOPLE.
* YES. I WROTE "GESTAPO." YEP. I WROTE "WAFFEN SS." SHALL I ADD PRAETORIAN GUARD... REMOVE ANY NAZI REFERENCES? OK... FINE... PRAETORIAN GUARD!
* FOLKS... THINK OF HOW HOLDER HAS ABUSED HIS POWER VIA THE FBI, ATF, ETC.
* WHAT'S WRONG WITH ICE... THE BORDER PATROL... SIMPLY GIVING THEM THE RESOURCES THEY NEED? WHY THIS PROPOSED MAJOR EXPANSION OF YET ANOTHER MILITARIZED FEDERAL "AGENCY" THAT LIKE THE FBI AND ATF IS NATIONWIDE AND ALSO INVOLVED IN FOREIGN POLICY "OVERSIGHT?"
* FOLKS... THIS SHOULD TERRIFY YOU!
The plan would create a Southern Command, or Southcom in military parlance, bringing together groups of agents from Customs and Border Protection, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, these people said. A Coast Guard admiral would oversee Southcom, and have command over personnel from both agencies, they said.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
The effort is aimed at reducing the influx of illegal immigrants and improving investigations of criminal activity along the Southwest border.
* BULLSHIT!
* FOLKS... EVERYTHING OBAMA HAS DONE SINCE TAKING OFFICE SHOWS HE WANTS OUR BORDERS OVERRUN BY HISPANIC ILLEGAL ALIENS! IT'S PART OF HIS GOAL OF TRANSFORMING THE CULTURE... OF THE "FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION" OF AMERICA!
More than 400,000 immigrants were apprehended trying to illegally cross into the U.S. in the 2013 budget year, according to Border Patrol statistics.
* FOLKS... THOSE OF YOU WHO REGULARLY READ NEWSBITES (OR ARE SIMPLY WELL-READ AND KNOWLEDGEABLE) ARE AWARE THAT THE OBAMAITES COOKED THE BOOKS TO GET THESE FIGURES! ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY STARTED COUNTING THOSE TURNED AWAY AT THE BORDER AS "APPREHENDED."
* TO BE CONTINUED...
* CONCLUDING... (Part 2 of 2)
In recent months, authorities have struggled to deal with a wave of children entering the U.S. The number of children entering illegally nearly doubled, to 66,127, from the previous year, according to the government.
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has been pushing to overhaul the organizational structure of the department, which has long been criticized by lawmakers and some former agency officials over how it manages and coordinates resources.
Mr. Johnson, a former Pentagon official, took over in December 2013 and ordered a review of the department to see what structural or organizational changes should be made. He has also brought some Pentagon staff with him to work at the Department of Homeland Security.
* FROM... THE... PENTAGON...
* FOLKS... IF THIS ADMINISTRATION - OR INDEED ANY ADMINISTRATION - WOULD SIMPLY ALLOW I.C.E TO DO THEIR JOB AND ALLOW STATE, COUNTY, MUNICIPAL, AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES ASSIST IN ENFORCING EXISTING U.S. IMMIGRATION LAW WE'RE BE ABLE TO BRING THE PROBLEM UNDER CONTROL IN NO TIME!
* AGAIN, FOLKS... THIS ARTICLE SHOULD TERRIFY YOU. (AND... IT SHOULD ENRAGE YOU... THE WAY THEY'RE TRYING TO MANIPULATE YOU!)
Adopting a military-style structure would create a strict hierarchy, one that advocates say clarifies the chain of command, speeds up decision-making and reduces bureaucratic disputes over turf.
* WHAT... OF... THE... COURTS...???
* AND AS FOR THIS "STRICT HIERARCHY"... WE'RE BACK TO THE PRAETORIAN GUARD HISTORICAL EXAMPLE...
Such a reorganization, which is still being discussed at DHS, could require legislation.
* "COULD...???" (SEE, FOLKS... SEE? THIS IS THE PROGRESSIVE WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORTING!)
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