Author: Bonfire of the Absurdities

Obamacare network vulnerable to cyber attack. “U.S. intelligence agencies last week urged the Obama administration to check its new healthcare network for malicious software after learning that developers linked to the Belarus government helped produce the website, raising fresh concerns that private data posted by millions of Americans will be compromised.” You gotta pass it to find out what kind of viruses are in it.

“The Revolt Against the Masses.” How we got where we are: “… liberalism or progressivism or leftism is ultimately about creating a sense of superiority on the cheap. A suburbanite or someone living in a small town can simply attach the ‘L’ word to himself and instantly feel superior to his fellow citizens.” Barack Obama as the second coming of Woodrow Wilson. Long, but worth the read.

Ex-Clinton aide urges Pelosi to apologize for Obamacare. Just his way of saying “Hillary 2016 wasn’t involved so don’t blame her!” Y, a heartfelt apology will sure ease the pain wrought by an incompetent act served up by a gaggle of arrogant idiots. Don’t take our word for it, just ask Mr. Ben Ghazi.

Higher Education: Rutgers University offers class on Beyonce. “Students at the New Brunswick campus are now enrolled in ‘Politicizing Beyoncé,’ a class led by doctoral student and lecturer Kevin Allred in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies.” We offer no comment except for this fine old video, and some suggested paraphrasing: “You take 16 credits and what do ya get? Another day older and deeper in debt. No employer’s gonna call me cause I can’t go, I took crap classes, there’s nothing I know.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUpTJg2EBpw

Pelosi: ObamaCare incompetence “not my responsibility”. “Who ran the House when the ObamaCare bill passed, with only votes from her party? Who claimed at the time that we couldn’t know how awesome this bill would be until it passed, because you couldn’t expect politicians to actually read a 2800-page bill before they voted on it? …does she feel no responsibility at all for the results of this legislation she herself championed?” No, because Republicans or Tea Party or something. Serve your country for once, Nanski… get the f— lost.

102 NYC police and firefighters caught in disability scam. “The alleged ringleaders, which included 83-year-old Raymond Lavallee, a former Nassau County assistant district attorney…” Yeah, but spending can’t be cut, you know… the poor would suffer, or something.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has urged residents of the embattled city of Fallujah to force out insurgents linked to al-Qaeda who have taken control there. Wait, didn’t we hear somewhere that Al Qaeda is dead and GM is alive? Ah, must’ve been that fictitious Ben Ghazi guy, messing everyone’s heads with 3 am prank phone calls again. ObamaCare is a success, though!

Fed admits it’s clueless how QE works. If you don’t know what you’re doing, how do you know when you’re done?

Nuns unionize, seek ObamaCare exemption. “Just hours after the Justice Department contested the Supreme Court delay of a federal mandate for contraceptive insurance, a plaintiff’s attorney announced that the Little Sisters of the Poor would form a collective bargaining unit and seek an exemption from ObamaCare.” Hey, maybe we can form a “Bloggers Union” and demand an exemption from CronyCare.

IMF paper warns of ‘savings tax’ and mass write-offs as West’s debt hits 200-year high. “The paper said policy elites in the West are still clinging to the illusion that rich countries can chip away at their debts with a blend of austerity cuts and growth.” Not while they add debt at an even faster rate, they ain’t. And that continues to be Bush’s fault.

Report: Kim Jong-Un had his uncle eaten by packs of wild dogs. As long as “Kim Jong-Un” is not Korean for “Bush” and he’s still building a “perfect” society, the Left will have no problem with this. Hey, the Norks have “free” Jong-Care!

Reflections on 2013; What’s Important, What’s Not? What’s Ahead? “According to Yahoo!News the top story of the year was the Jodi Arias trial.” Take a look at the potentially “history making” stories that the journ0listic establishment deigned to cover and then note that not coincidentally, “media” and “morons” both begin with “m”.

More than a Gesture Behind Euro Jew-Hate. “Most of us may not have heard of it until recently, but the quenelle, the name given to a hand gesture that is a downward facing Nazi salute, has become an important symbol of the shift in European culture in recent years. Created by Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala, an anti-Semitic French comedian, the quenelle is now all the rage in France.” Everything old is new again.

The Party of the Rich flogs income inequality. “As for the poor, it doesn’t matter what happens to them as long as the rhetoric is good and they keep voting Democratic.” Crony capitalists think “social programs” are necessary as long as they can profit from them.

Ship that rescued global-warming scientists from polar ice may be stuck in, um, polar ice; “climate deniers” rejoice. “Science™ is all about feelings. Feelings like smugness and superiority and disdain. That’s the basis of Science™. We know how they feel, we’re very “scientific” ourselves.

The complete list of everything banned by NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg. But with Moscow on the Hudson now a reality, any guesses as to how long it will be before Nanny B’s years are remembered as “the good ole days”?

Obamacare Showdown: Missouri Bill to gut Obamacare, ban penalties, ban healthcare exchange. “This could get interesting if even three states nullify Obamacare, and allegedly 10 states are considering such action.” Die monster, die!

Chicago considering cycling tax. “Bike-friendly bloggers retorted that maybe pedestrians ought to be charged a shoe tax to use the sidewalks.” Those damn farm subsidies simply not enough to keep this eleventy-plus rated city running.

What to do when ObamaCare unravels. “Health insurance should be individual, portable across jobs, states and providers; lifelong and guaranteed-renewable, meaning you have the right to continue with no unexpected increase in premiums if you get sick. Insurance should protect wealth against large, unforeseen, necessary expenses, rather than be a wildly inefficient payment plan for routine expenses. People want to buy this insurance, and companies want to sell it. It would be far cheaper, and would solve the pre-existing conditions problem. We do not have such health insurance only because it was regulated out of existence.” Well, pols have taken to labelling any plans that make sense “substandard” meaning there isn’t any opportunity for graft.

Beware holiday “package delivery” email viruses. “When it looks like this: http://[email protected]/arrival/ it may look like it’s at fedex.com, but it’s really at ajax11a.cz. That “@” instead of a “/” makes all the difference.” We personally don’t click on links in email but rather type “fedex.com” (or whatever the site is) into the browser address bar and get there that way.

The Obama “selfie” of the week. As a certain former big-name TV propagandist “journalist” once said, “Fake but accurate.”

Investor wants to turn California into 6 states. Six times as many bottom-feeding idiot politicians and six times as many bullet trains! Yowser!

Why Obamacare never had a chance in hell of working. “…there is one thing that a health care system cannot be. It cannot be everything for everyone. It cannot simultaneously be 1) universal, 2) comprehensive, and 3) affordable. This is the impossible trinity of objectives.” Math just don’t want poor people to have health insurance or something.

Obamacare is falling apart before our eyes. “As it becomes more evident that there will be tens of millions of uninsured in 2014 despite Obamacare, Democrats will come under intense pressure to exempt them from the individual mandate tax too. NBC’s Chuck Todd spoke for many when he wondered aloud whether anyone would pay the uninsured tax in 2014, given what has transpired to date. Who would bet otherwise at this point?” Incompetence is its own “reward”. Burn baby, burn.

Obama lifts health mandate for those with canceled plans. Dam bursts often begin with small leaks: “The First Crack in the Individual Mandate.” Wait, does the Roberts’ “decision” make this a tax refund????