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January 28, 2015

GOP to White House: What's your ObamaCare backup plan if we win?

GOP lawmakers have a big question for President Obama about the upcoming Supreme Court case that could undo much of his signature healthcare law: What happens if we win?

Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter Wednesday to the head of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), demanding the administration show its hand in case the court rules against ObamaCare this summer.


“Given HHS’s responsibilities, we believe it is prudent that the Department plan for the full range of potential outcomes and consequences of the Court’s decision,” leaders of the committee wrote in a letter to HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell.

The lawmakers are seeking any and all information related to the administration's preparation — starting with "all scenarios considered or evaluated."

Both parties have acknowledged that the case, King v. Burwell, is the biggest threat to the healthcare law while Obama remains in office.

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/231024-gop-to-white-house-what-is-your-obamacare-backup-plan

* I know the GOP back up plan...no healthcare for you*

January 28, 2015

Teen walks into Leesburg High School with gun

LEESBURG, Fla. — Channel 9 has learned an Apopka teenager walked into Leesburg High School with a gun early Wednesday afternoon.

School officials said the gun wasn’t loaded but the 16-year-old, who wasn’t a student at the school, had ammunition on him.
School officials said a student warned a school deputy about the teen and that deputy took the teenager into custody within minutes.
The deputy found a .38 caliber revolver on the teen, as well as hollow point bullets in his pockets.

During the investigation, authorities determined the teen had been reported missing from the Apopka area.
It's unclear why he showed up at the school.

The teen was taken into custody and will be booked in to the Lake County Jail for possession of a firearm on school grounds.
School officials said there will be extra deputies on campus Thursday morning.


http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/man-walks-leesburg-high-school-unloaded-gun/njygd/


*But, but we don't need any gun control laws

January 27, 2015

Watch The Moment A Man Finds Out He’s Surrounded By People He Saved From The Holocaust

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/watch-the-moment-a-man-finds-out-hes-surrounded-by-people-he#.dm6Yebnvd

In 1938, Winton headed an operation to save Jewish Czechoslovakian children from the Holocaust, according to Wikipedia. He found homes in Britain for nearly 700 children. Many of them would be orphaned by Auschwitz. His scheme was known in Czechoslovakia as Kindertransport. And it all happened after he went to Prague instead of a skiing holiday in the Alps. The British press would later dub him the “British Schindler”.
Winton spent years dealing with the guilt he felt over the children he wasn’t able to save. Opposing Views reports:

In 1988 his wife discovered a scrapbook, lists of names, and journals that described his rescue plan. She convinced him to go public with his story – whereupon he appeared on That’s Life.

And then this happened....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-ts=1421914688&v=6_nFuJAF5F0&x-yt-cl=84503534


This is so beautiful.
January 26, 2015

Semites...

A Semite is a member of any of various ancient and modern Semitic-speaking peoples, mostly originating in the Near East, including: Akkadians (Assyrians and Babylonians), Ammonites, Amorites, Arameans, Chaldeans, Canaanites (including Hebrews/Israelites/Jews/Samaritans and Phoenicians/Carthaginians), Eblaites, Dilmunites, Edomites, Amalekites, Turukku, Ethiopian Semites, Hyksos, Arabs, Nabateans, Maltese, Mandaeans, Mhallami, Moabites, Shebans, Meluhhans, Maganites, Ubarites, Sabians and Ugarites.....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_people


So, Arabs are Semetic people and hatred of Arabs is anti-semetic too.


had this argument with someone who hated Arabs many who are Muslims and they were in shock and in denial oh and of course angry.

January 25, 2015

Mayor de Blasio of New Yorker said this is one of the worst storms in the city’s history.



NEW YORK (PIX11) – Mayor Bill de Blasio is urging New Yorkers to be cautious as one of the worst storms in the city’s history approaches.

In a news conference Sunday afternoon, the mayor told New Yorkers not to underestimate the power of the storm, which is expected to blanket much of the region with up to 2 feet of snow.


“The city’s doing everything we know how to do to keep you safe,” de Blasio said, adding that nearly 500 salt spreaders are ready to be deployed before the snow starts falling and that city workers will be on 12-hour shifts to fight the looming storm.

City schools will be open on Monday but all after-school activities have been canceled. It’s likely that schools will be closed Tuesday, de Blasio said.

*What could be worse than Sandy? It's possible.

http://pix11.com/2015/01/25/mayor-de-blasio-holds-briefing-on-blizzard-warning-school-closings/



January 21, 2015

Rethugs will complain and demand the president apologize cause he said won both elections.





but probably true


Rethug: " President Obama owes Congress an apology.He is very arrogant, a braggart and uppity by saying he won two elections"

Reporter: " But, he did win BOTH elections"

Rethug: " Yea we know, but he didn't have to say it to make us cry"


January 16, 2015

DA: Landscaper Says 'Illegal Immigration' Made Him Smash Dump Truck Into Macy's, Steal ATM

http://patch.com/new-york/smithtown/da-landscaper-says-illegal-immigration-made-him-smash-dump-truck-macys-steal-at-0

By Ryan Bonner (Patch National Staff)

A landscape contractor from Glen Cove told police that he and an accomplice stole a dump truck from a cemetery, smashed it through the Smith Haven Mall Macy’s and then fled with an ATM last month because of the “hard times” caused by the influx of immigrant labor, according to Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota.

Garrett Landry, 26, will be arraigned on a grand jury indictment in Riverhead Friday morning stemming from the incident last month, Spota said.

According to Spota, Landry, the owner-operator of Garland Contracting, a Glen Cove firm specializing in landscape and masonry construction, told Suffolk detectives that “times are hard right now” and “I can’t compete with all the illegal immigration; they’re taking over and they work for nothing.”

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As of the census[11] of 2010, there were 1,493,350 people and 569,985 households residing in the county. The population of Suffolk County was estimated by the U.S. Census to have increased by 0.4% to 1,499,738 in 2013, representing 7.6% of the Census-estimated New York State population of 19,651,127 and 19.4% of the Census-estimated Long Island population of 7,740,208.[12][13][14][15] The population density was 1,637 people per square mile (633/km²)with 569,985 households at an average density of 625 per square mile (242/km²). However, by 2012 with an estimated total population increasing moderately to 1,499,273 there were 569,359 housing units.[16] The racial makeup of the county was 80.78% White, 7.45% African American, 0.36% Native American, 3.41% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 5.56% from other races, and 2.41% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 16.49% of the population.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffolk_County,_New_York#Demographics


omg omg this guy is nuts

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