One of my trolls put me on Moveon.oreg’s mailing list so I get some funny emails from them. The latest one started out like this.

Dear MoveOn member,

Zero.

That’s the total number of positive stories about the Affordable Care Act on the ABC and NBC Nightly News in the first two months of Obamacare. At the same time, they ran nearly wall-to-wall negative stories.

That’s funny. I thought the media was on your side.

Clearly, there were serious problems with the rollout that deserved attention.

That has to be the understatement of the year.

But zero stories about the largest expansion of health care access in decades? That’s just irresponsible journalism.

Actually it’s not. Did you ever stop to think that there were no positive stories about Obummercare? Even liberals are starting to get pissed off as they lose health insurance and those who are able to keep it have seen their premiums go up. Remember the twit in California who said, “Of course I think everyone should have health insurance. I just didn’t think that I would be the one who had to pay for it.” Spoken like a true libtard.

And it’s having real-world consequences.

No shit! That’s because Obummercare is causing real world problems. Fantasy is being mugged by reality (as often happens with liberal beliefs) as people are losing health insurance and premiums are rising.

Some people are actually choosing not to enroll because of all the bad news—

And high premiums and failing websites.

and with just 14 weeks left to enroll, some of those people could be left out in the cold.

Not to mention not being able to enroll because of the failure of both the federal and state websites.

MoveOn is launching a major effort to highlight all the great things happening because of Obamacare.

They’ve actually found some? Quick! Call up MSNBC!

And thousands of people have already volunteered to share their stories publicly—stories of lives saved and families kept out of bankruptcy—but we still need to raise $200,000 to pay for organizers and ads to get these stories out and overcome the media’s obsessive attacks on Obamacare. Can you chip in $3?

Nope!

I guess, by now, that most of you have seen this story that was sent to me by many of my readers.

Authorities near Pittsburgh have arrested an 18-year-old man who admitted to the brutal rape a nun in the parking lot behind the church where she serves Friday morning.

The suspect, Andrew Bullock, faces at least 10 charges in the viscous attack.

According to authorities, the victim was walking in the parking lot behind the Titus Church on Franklin Avenue in Aliquippa – about 20 miles northwest of Pittsburgh – when the suspect approached her and asked if she needed help.

The nun, 70, told the young man that she was fine and started to walk away, at which point the suspect told her to look down at his exposed genitals.

When she continued to walk away, authorities say Bullock grabbed her neck and began to choke and punch the woman.

‘The first thing you notice when you look up up where this horrific act occurred, is the statue of the Virgin Mary looking down,’ Assistant Chief Dan Couch told KDKA.

The brutality of the crime, Couch says, shocked and outraged many officers in his department.

Ya think? This would shock and outrage anyone with any sense of decency, although I’m sure most people on the left would talk about the “root cause” of what would drive this animal into committing this senseless act of violence.

According to authorities, a boot print found in the snow matches the boots Bullock was wearing at the time of his arrest.

Authorities say Bullock attacked the 70-year-old nun in the parking lot behind the church where she serves.

The nun required surgery for a broken jaw suffered during the attack. She is recovering at Alleghany General Hospital.

Bullock is charged with felony rape, aggravated assault and sexual assault, and misdemeanor charges of indecent exposure, simple assault and reckless endangerment.

Words fail me. I mean what can you say about this. A 70 year old nun? How sexy is that? Rape, after all, in most cases is not a sex crime. It’s a crime of brutality. And this is what our society has created with its social welfare policies. Feral blacks with no sense of morality and they are riled up by the likes of Jesse Hymietown Jackson, Al Tawana Brawley Crown Heights Riots Freddie’s Fashion Mart Arson Sharpton, Eric My People Holder, and the race baiter in chief, Obungler, who, if he had a son, would look just like this feral black.

Liberals are still trying to peddle the lie that the Tea Party is a racist organization.

Dana Loesch eats this guy’s lunch. Once again this idiot brought up the Tea Party calling John Lewis “nigger”. Andrew Breitbart offered $100K for any proof that it happened. No one produced any evidence. They’re losing so they have to play the race card. Obummercare is imploding, so they have to play the race card. It’s all they got.

The real racists are on the left. They are the ones who have destroyed the black family. They are the ones who have kept blacks poor, uneducated, and dependent upon gummint. As I have said many times, if the KKK had tried to come up with policies to keep blacks down, they couldn’t have done a better job than today’s Dimocrat Party. And speaking of racists, the KKK was the terrorist wing of the Dimocrat Party. Blacks are doing worse under the Obamessiah than they did under Reagan and both Bushes. And they have the unmitigated gall to call us racists?

This story in the New York Slimes (motto:All the news that fits our views) warmed the cockles of my heart.

Many in New York’s professional and cultural elite have long supported President Obama’s health care plan. But now, to their surprise, thousands of writers, opera singers, music teachers, photographers, doctors, lawyers and others are learning that their health insurance plans are being canceled and they may have to pay more to get comparable coverage, if they can find it.

We warned you booger eatin’ moh-rons. You wouldn’t listen to us and called us racists for being against Obummercare.

They are part of an unusual, informal health insurance system that has developed in New York, in which independent practitioners were able to get lower insurance rates through group plans, typically set up by their professional associations or chambers of commerce. That allowed them to avoid the sky-high rates in New York’s individual insurance market, historically among the most expensive in the country.

So what’s happening now?

But under the Affordable Care Act, they will be treated as individuals, responsible for their own insurance policies. For many of them, that is likely to mean they will no longer have access to a wide network of doctors and a range of plans tailored to their needs. And many of them are finding that if they want to keep their premiums from rising, they will have to accept higher deductible and co-pay costs or inferior coverage.

And have you noticed as we are hearing more and more stories like this, that the LSM is calling it the Affordable Care Act and not Obummercare? Wonder why that is? Could it be that it sucks and they’re trying to protect their boy?

“I couldn’t sleep because of it,” said Barbara Meinwald, a solo practitioner lawyer in Manhattan.

Poor baby! This is what you voted for and you’re getting it. Good and hard!

Ms. Meinwald, 61, has been paying $10,000 a year for her insurance through the New York City Bar. A broker told her that a new temporary plan with fewer doctors would cost $5,000 more, after factoring in the cost of her medications.

Ms. Meinwald also looked on the state’s health insurance exchange. But she said she found that those plans did not have a good choice of doctors, and that it was hard to even find out who the doctors were, and which hospitals were covered. “It’s like you’re blindfolded and you’re told that you have to buy something,” she said.

Yep! Once again, we told you this would happen but you just called us a bunch of racists.

The people affected include not just writers, artists, doctors and the like, but also independent tradespeople, like home builders or carpenters, who work on their own.

So now you care about working people? When did that start?

Some have received notices already; others, whose plans have not yet expired, will soon receive letters in the mail. It is unclear exactly how many New Yorkers are affected; according to state health officials, as many as 400,000 independent practitioners get health insurance through job-related group plans, but that number also includes people who receive coverage through their spouses’ employers.

It’s a train wreck just like the people with more than two functioning brain cells knew would happen. How do ya like Obumbler now, New York? This is what you voted for.

The predicament is similar to that of millions of Americans who discovered this fall that their existing policies were being canceled because of the Affordable Care Act. The crescendo of outrage led to Mr. Obama’s offer to restore their policies, though some states that have their own exchanges, like California and New York, have said they will not do so.

It led to Oblunder illegally offering to restore their policies. FIFY!

But while those policies, by and large, had been canceled because they did not meet the law’s requirements for minimum coverage, many of the New York policies being canceled meet and often exceed the standards, brokers say. The rationale for disqualifying those policies, said Larry Levitt, a health policy expert at the Kaiser Family Foundation, was to prevent associations from selling insurance to healthy members who are needed to keep the new health exchanges financially viable.

See Obeauzeau supporters, your hero is screwing you to make the exchanges work. He’s also stealing over $700 billion from Medicare, just like Mittens said and Oboner denied in the debates. He has to steal money from working programs to try to make his disaster work. Once again, we told you this would happen but you called us racists.

Siphoning those people, Mr. Levitt said, would leave the pool of health exchange customers “smaller and disproportionately sicker,” and would drive up rates.

Just like we told you but… Ah hell, you know the rest.

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David Rubin, vice president of Teiget, the Entertainment Industry Group Insurance Trust, which had served as a broker for about 1,000 members of creative guilds, said a big complaint was that in New York City and much of the state, the new individual plans both on and off the exchange did not allow patients to go to doctors out of network. “All these people had these customized plans which are better than most of the things out there, and most of them are saving only a small amount of money,” Mr. Rubin said.

You know that prolly 95% of these people (prolly even more) voted for Obeavis. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! How do you like him now? We told you this would happen but you called us racists.

Roy Lyons, managing director of Marsh U.S. Consumer, an insurance brokerage, said he had heard complaints from physicians, lawyers, pharmacists and optometrists. “At first they think it’s the bar association making the decision or the insurance company doing it,” Mr. Lyons said. “We have to explain that this is the Affordable Care Act; that’s what was put into law. Once they understand, they’re less emotional, but they’re not happy with it.”

Wait! It’s Obummercare that’s doing this? Then I guess this is OK ’cause we support Obutthead so this must be for the greater good. What a bunch of booger eatin’ moh-rons!

Among those affected are members of the Authors Guild; the Advertising Photographers of America; the Suzuki Association of the Americas, a music teachers organization; the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators; the New York City Bar Association; and the New York County Medical Society. (One group, the Freelancers Union, negotiated a one-year exemption with the state.)

And you just know that all of those are liberal organizations except maybe the New York County Medical Society.

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It is not lost on many of the professionals that they are exactly the sort of people — liberal, concerned with social justice — who supported the Obama health plan in the first place. Ms. Meinwald, the lawyer, said she was a lifelong Democrat who still supported better health care for all, but had she known what was in store for her, she would have voted for Mitt Romney.

Too late for that now. We told you … you know the rest.

It is an uncomfortable position for many members of the creative classes to be in.

“We are the Obama people,” said Camille Sweeney, a New York writer and member of the Authors Guild. Her insurance is being canceled, and she is dismayed that neither her pediatrician nor her general practitioner appears to be on the exchange plans. What to do has become a hot topic on Facebook and at dinner parties frequented by her fellow writers and artists.

“I’m for it,” she said. “But what is the reality of it?”

The reality is that it sucks. Unfortunately, you guys don’t live in the real world. You live in a fantasy land where we can get 100% of our power from wind, solar, and unicorn farts. Where liberal policies work. Where stupid actions have no consequences. Where you can give 50 million additional people health insurance without the cost going up. You have been slapped in the face by reality. You now have to face the consequences of Hope and Change. How’s that hopey changey stuff working out for ya?

Elections have consequences.

I love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning. It smells like vindication.

Casey sent me this one.

All I can say is GMAFB! Here is link to the article. Thanks to Dan for the link.

I can say one more thing. If they really want a feminist programming language, it would have to use five times the instructions that a normal programming language would use.

MrG., from My Daily Kona sent me the following e-mail which I have edited slightly.

I am “MrG” from the “my Daily Kona” website that is on your blogroll. I have read your website for several years I guess, and you have on your older posts commented about the crappy roll-out of the ACA website and the lack of testing.

To give you a bit of a background, I am a Boy scout leader and I was talking with one of the other leaders waiting for a parade to start and that person told me a few things about healthcare.gov.Obunglercare. I was talking to another parent at my sons scout troop. This person was talking about a a major software upgrade roll out they they are worried about and I commented ” as long as your roll out works better than the Obamacare website roll-out , then y’all would be fine.” This person replied that ” My company is the one that rolled out the ACA website.”

*Oh Snap* I thought. I replied ” You work for CGI Federal?” This person nodded in the affirm. I, without thinking, immediately asked ” What happened, was there any test of the system before the roll-out?”

This person replied “There was so much bureaucratic interference in the program, all these people wanted their input into the product, but then wouldn’t make a decision and punted it to another bureaucrat who then shuffled it to another one. We had no guidance on exactly what they wanted…Just vague *suggestions*. We were stumbling around trying to do what they asked. There was no leadership or direction given. We kept changing the codes, adding things and then removing things….per their many requests, but no firm guidance. And they would not change the date of the rollout, political considerations”

I was thinking.*yep, the bureaucrat play…Duck and cover….Don’t make a decision…you might be held responsible by those above you and get demoted.* And people want the government to run your healthcare?

One of the classes I taught at IBM was a three week boot camp for IBM contract programmers. We increased their programming skills, but we also had a module on contracts. In our first class, which was a test class, we had the students get requirements for a contract from a fake customer. The contract was for giving the customer a turnkey system that the students would install and customize.

We had an actual contract manager play the customer IT manager and an actual IBM contract programmer playing his lead programmer. When it was time, four days later, to get the manager to sign the contract that the students, who had split up in groups, had drawn up, the manager would ask them to do a little add on to the contract, which involved adding a T1 line to a remote programmer. The correct answer was, “We will have to negotiate another contract for that.” The real manager, who had sat across the table from a real customer told the students, that he had fallen for this crap in the real world and it had been the difference from making a profit or losing money on the contract. In later classes, one of our senior instructors played the manager, but used the same script.

This was a fun class to teach, but gave me an insight into what I knew went on in the healthcare.gov fiasco. It’s hard to hit a moving target.

When I first arrived in Atlanta in 1985 for my new job as a large system instructor, where I taught 3081, 3084, (top of the line mainframes) and mass storage (an IBM tape library system that made me a lot of money when I was a Customer Engineer trained on it) IBM had just signed a contract to upgrade the FAA computer system. Many of our instructors were promoted to take on project manager jobs on this project. This was my first glimpse in how gummint contracts worked.

I remember when I was a CE in St. Louis and had to take a few callouts at the Army Records Center, I was shocked at how old their equipment was. They were still using an old 360 mainframe. Of course, their 1403 printers were ancient. This was because the gummint bought their technology and as the result of the way contracting was done, they bought obsolete equipment. So it was with the FAA project.

When I first got to Atlanta, we were were teaching the 3090 processor which was still not general availability. That happened shortly after I got there. The FAA was gonna use 3083 processors since they were state of the art when the contracts were being drawn up. By the time everything had been approved, the processors were being installed, the 308x product line was downlevel and the next generation processors, the 3090’s were now top of the line. So, the FAA project was not using the latest and greatest. By the time all of the systems were online and working, the next generation processors after the 3090, were close to being launched.

Since the gummint buys rather than leasing technology, by the time the contracts are approved and the hardware is installed, they are only a few years away from being obsolete. That’s how fast things work in the IT industry.

I also knew that due to the gummint bueaucracy, requirements would change on a daily basis and dealing with the gummint bureaucracy would be like trying to nail Jello to a wall. As we have watched the rollout, my friend Cindy told me, “This is working just as you predicted.” Of course it has. To make this work, you need to have the requirements set in stone. You can’t continue to move the goal posts and expect everything to work. Of course when you have an administration that won’t take any responsibility for any of its actions from the top to the bottom with nobody willing to make a decision, a project is doomed to fail.

The legislation sucked. In a hurry to pass a bill, the Dimocrats rammed through a bill that no one read, using legislative tricks, with not a single Republican voting for it. It should be no surprise that the implementation of Obummercare would be a train wreck. This is what you get with one party rule. This is what you get when you elect someone, on the basis of skin color, with no legislative or executive experience. So we proved we weren’t racist, even though Obumbler supporters still claim we are. The country elected an incompetent racist buffoon, whose only skill is reading a TelePrompTer, not once, but twice to prove we weren’t racist.

This is what happens when affirmative action meets the Peter Principle. I saw it happen a few times at IBM. We are now seeing it writ large and all of us are paying the price.

Elections have consequences. We’re doomed!

Today’s Prickly City comic strip nailed it today.

“The press has reported that the website is all fixed up Senator Kevin.”

“But it’s a lie. Why would they say that?”

“They want it to work, sir. Fake it ’til you make it.”

“Self delusion madness! Lies! Their evilness knows no bounds.”

Yep! That pretty much covers it. The press is heavily invested in Obungler. Remember, they made him. They did not vet him. We knew more about Sarah Palin a week after McRINO chose her as his running mate than we’ll ever know about Jug Hussein Ears Downgrade.

Remember all the stories on the economy like “green shoots” “recovery summer” “funemployment”? The fact is that after five years of Obamanomics, unemployment remains over 7%, the longest run in my lifetime, and that 7% is not even the real number. The real number is somewhere between 12% and 14%. Less people are working than when Obeavis took office and, ironically, the people hit the hardest are blacks. How do ya like that Hope and Change bros? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! No pity here. You voted skin color and you got screwed which is what the Dimocrats do best with regard to blacks. Keep them poor, uneducated, and dependent upon gummint.

Imagine how the LSM would be reporting this stuff if a Republican was in office. Remember when the economy was recovering under Bush 43 and the unemployment rate was 5%? The LSM labeled it a “jobless recovery”. Now, they’re saying that 7% unemployment is the “new normal”. “Fake it ’til you make it.”

The LSM propaganda arm of the Dimocrat Party so much wants Obummercare, Obumbler’s single accomplishment of his administration, to succeed that they keep covering “successes” like Kentucky where 60,00 people have signed up. Unfortunately, only about 12,500 have actually signed up for real plans. The other 48,000 have signed up for Medicaid, which the feds will pay for for 2 years. After that, the portion the feds will pay for drop. The smart states, like mean old Georgia where we hate the poor leeches and parasites, didn’t fall for this scam, much to the dismay of the rat bastard commies at the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation who have written editorials about what a hard hearted bastard Governor Deal is.

Another “success story” is in Washington State or, at least that’s what the LSM has been saying for the last few weeks. Turns out it wasn’t such a success after all. I’m really surprised that they’re reporting this.

For the second week in a row, the Washington Healthplanfinder website is down, and it’s causing problems for people who are dealing with billing issues. Some of them say the website is mistakenly debiting their accounts.

Shannon Bruner of Indianola logged on to her checking account Monday morning, and found she was almost 800 dollars in the negative.

“The first thing I thought was, ‘I got screwed,’” she said.

That’s what gummint does best. This is what is known as a zipless fuck. You didn’t even have to remove your clothing. Ronald Reagan said that the ten most feared words in the English language were: I’m from the gummint and I’m here to help you. And if you think it’s bad now, wait until the most feared gummint agency gets involved. Don’t pay your premiums? Here comes the IRS and the IRS doesn’t have to follow due process. With the IRS rather than being innocent until proven guilty, you’re guilty until proven innocent. This really needs to change, but it won’t.

The Bruners enrolled for insurance on the Washington Healthplanfinder website, last October. They say they selected the bill pay date to be December 24th. Instead the Washington Healthplanfinder drafted the 835 dollar premium Monday.

Josh Bruner started his own business this year as an engineering recruiter. They said it’s forced them to pay a lot of attention to their bills and their bank accounts.

“Big knot in my gut because we’re trying to keep it together,” said Shannon Bruner. “It’s important to me that this kind of stuff doesn’t happen.”

They’re not alone.

I’m sure. This law is gonna be the biggest gummint created disaster since the Great Depression. By trying to fix a nonexistent problem, gummint created a real problem that is affecting the middle class big time. And it’s only gonna get worse as time goes on. Wait until the business mandate kicks in, which Obeauzeau has illegally put off until after the 2014 election. How convenient.

One viewer emailed KING 5 saying, “They drafted my account this morning for a second time.”

Another woman on Facebook with a similar problem commented, “We are all in the same boat.”

“We’ve got to figure out how to get money to pay the bills for the next week or two until we have another check come through,” said Josh Bruner. “It’s just crazy.”

I wonder if this guy voted for Oblunder. I will be willing to be he did. As I’ve been saying for years, elections have consequences. A majority of voters in Washington State voted for Oboner and Dimocrats and they are getting what they voted for, good and hard. Another dash of Schandenfreude today.

Washington Healthplanfinder emailed the Bruners a few days ago telling them to log in to view their invoice, something they couldn’t do because the website has been down.

The website has been down? I thought Washingon was one of the “success stories” theat the LSM crowed about. The LSM wouldn’t lie to us would they?

The Bruners haven’t been able to get through on the helpline either. They finally contacted Healthplanfinder administrators by posting a message on their Facebook page.

Thank goodness for Facebook! By the way, how long did it take for Facebook to set up its site? Maybe the gummint should have gone to Facebook to create healthcare.gov.

I’ve got an interesting story about setting up healthcare.gov that one of my readers sent me that I’ll share in a later post. He told me everything that I expected about coding healthcare.gov.

Washington Healthplanfinder tells KING 5 their staff is looking into the problem.

Typical gummint answer.

Until it’s resolved, the couple is putting their best face forward.

“We haven’t bought anyone’s Christmas gifts yet,” said Shannon Bruner. “We’re just kind of waiting.”

Boo freakin’ who!

“We wrote a check to our nanny last week, it isn’t going to work,” said Josh Bruner. “So she can’t get paid.”

Wait a minute! They’ve got a nanny? Regular daycare is not good enough for them? There’s a place to cut expenses right there. They sound like typical liberal Obutthead voters. I’m sorry that I can’t find any sympathy in my heart for these folks. As I have said many times “Elections have consequences”.

Bill sent me this one.

Vicki sent me this. And since Monday Is FOD at the The Criplets this is appropriate.

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