Where Are My Keys?

Piker is right!!!

In the comments from an earlier post, our friend from California noted that "I believe someone is using fear to manipulate you, but it's not the Obama administration."

He's right, it's not the Obama Administration itself, just the political party that follows him in lock step:

 

"Settled Science", indeed..

We learn that Antarctic ice is hitting record levels this Summer, and that the Government data shows the USA has been in a decade-long cooling period.

The British responds to this good news by trying to ban anyone that dares talk about these facts.

Why does Obama hate people with HIV/AIDS?

If he doesn't hate them, why is he not allowing them to get coverage?

Hundreds of indigent HIV/AIDS patients are dependent on Ryan White payments for Obamacare because they fall into a gap. They are not eligible for Medicaid, the joint federal-state health insurance program for the poor, because Louisiana did not expand the low-income program, and Obamacare federal subsidies don't kick in until people are at 100 percent of the federal poverty level.

Before Obamacare, the 1990 Ryan White Act offered people with HIV/AIDS federal financial help in paying for AIDS drugs and health insurance premiums, especially in state-run, high-risk pools.

Obamacare, which bans insurers from discriminating against people with preexisting conditions, was designed to replace these high-risk pools.

Starting on October 1, AIDS advocates and others in Louisiana "were enrolling anyone and everyone we could" through the Obamacare exchange, said Lucy Cordts of the New Orleans NO/AIDS Task Force.

Last month, her clients and those of other AIDS groups began to hear from Louisiana Blue that their enrollments were in limbo because the company would not accept the Ryan White checks for premium payments.

The only other carrier that is refusing to accept such payments is Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota, according to a CMS official.

North Dakota Blue "restricts premium payment from third parties including employers, providers, and state agencies," said spokeswoman Andrea Dinneen, but "is currently reviewing its eligibility policies with respect to recipients of Ryan White Program funding."

Smells like discrimination by the Obama Administration, doesn't it?

Healthcare advocates are worried that the refusal to accept Ryan White payments is an effort by insurers to keep AIDS patients from enrolling in their plans and last month began pressing the issue, including with the office of Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu.

In an email reviewed by Reuters, a healthcare expert on Landrieu's staff wrote, "BCBS LA told me their decision was not due to the CMS guidance or any confusion (as we thought before) but was in fact due to adverse selection concerns. I have also recently learned North Dakota's BCBS plan has implemented the same policy."

Jessica Stone, the Landrieu staff member, declined to elaborate on the email further or to discuss her interactions with Louisiana Blue.

Adverse selection refers to the situation where an insurer attracts patients with chronic conditions and expensive care. Louisiana Blue's action "sure looks to us like discrimination against sick people," said John Peller, vice president for policy at the AIDS Foundation of Chicago.

Hard to believe that legislation that no one read, and was jammed through the system, would have so many surprises, isn't it?

Dump 'em both, I say..

Which do you pick, the serial texter, or the "screeching harpy"?

Poor Huma. Married to one of the biggest clowns on the planet, and now she’s got to choose between her loser husband or this screeching harpy.

Top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin has been given an ultimatum: dump serial-sexting hubby Anthony Weiner, or get out of Clintontown.

“Huma has a choice to make,” a close associate tells New York magazine. “Does she go with Anthony, or does she go with Hillary?”

Abedin’s decision over whether to leave the “Clinton bubble,” where she’s seen as Hillary’s most trusted aide, has emerged as “the biggest question among Hillary’s circle” as the former Secretary of State mulls a 2016 run for the White House, the magazine reports.

The Clinton camp was blindsided by revelations over the summer — during Weiner’s disastrously failed New York mayoral run — that he’d kept up his secret online sexting even after resigning from Congress in shame in 2011. Abedin was quickly advised to keep her distance from her scandal-scarred mate, and vanished from Weiner’s side for the rest of the campaign. The candidate’s bird-flipping parting shot to reporters after his humiliating defeat this month made a bad situation even worse, according to New York.

She’s probably better off just fleeing the country. You know how messy these love triangles can be.

Funny how the lady that stood by the lying guy that got hummers in the Oval Office, feels she can pass judgement over a fellow woman with an equally creepy husband.

Maybe Huma will wake up, and ditch the whole lot.  I bet she'd be happier in the long run.

The Toddfather riding off in the sunset..

We have certainly enjoyed watching Todd Helton play here in the Mile High City, and Coors Field won't be the same once he hangs up his eye black.  I don't think he makes it into the Hall of Fame-he's got the stigma of playing his entire career here in the thin air, and while he's always been in the conversation of great hitters of his era, he's never had one of "those" seasons that made folks outside of our Market sit up and take notice.  He's done some remarkable things, but hasn't done them with enough fanfare to launch him to the next level:

Craig Wright, a statistician, author and Bill James disciple who ranks players according to a measure called Win Shares Above Replacement Level, ranks Helton as the 27th-best first baseman of all time. He regards Fred McGriff, Will Clark, Norm Cash, Carlos Delgado and John Olerud as more worthy Hall of Fame candidates who will most likely never get to Cooperstown.

"Helton has had a fine career and been a great ballplayer, but clearly not great enough for the Hall of Fame unless the voters are snowed by the impact of his home park," Wright said in an email to ESPN.com.

Still, if you judge a man by the company he keeps, Helton resides on a higher plane. In 2000, he joined Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx and Greenberg as the only players in history to record at least 200 hits, 40 home runs, 100 runs, 100 RBIs, 100 extra-base hits and 100 walks in a season. Over the past 50 seasons, only Wade Boggs, Rod Carew and Tony Gwynnreached 2,000 hits in fewer at-bats than Helton required. And the list goes on.

We'll savor the rest of his at-bats this season, keep our fingers crossed for hit number 2500, and hope that Colorado fans get one more season with #17 on first base.

My favorite image of Todd is one of him completeing the play at first to put the Rockies into the World Series:

Can't get much better than that for the face of your franchise..

How sad is this?

The family resuced by George Zimmerman is concerned they will be targeted by hate mobs:

The family rescued by George Zimmerman after a rollover crash in Florida are terrified they will become targets for hate mobs who have made death threats to the neighborhood vigilante.

Mark and Dana Michelle Gerstle told friends they do not want to talk publicly about Zimmerman for fear they will be accused of portraying him as a hero - and face a backlash from those who consider he got away with murder.

'They are very grateful to Zimmerman for what he did, but they do not want to get involved,' said a friend, who asked not to be named.

 

'There is so much hatred directed towards him they have got to think about their own family. There are a lot of crazies out there. If they say anything in support of him it could backfire.'

 

Friends of the couple, who make regular trips from their home to the Disney theme parks in Orlando, said they will be concerned that they could become targets for hate mobs who have threatened revenge for the death of Trayvon Martin.

'Let's face it, George Zimmerman is pretty toxic right now,' said a friend.

'Mark has two young children and has got to live his life round here. Why would he want to mark himself out.

'Whatever he says could be taken out of context. If he praises Zimmerman then people will say he is making him into a hero. It is easier if he says nothing.'

Like Casey Anthony, another Florida resident who was sensationally cleared of murder, Zimmerman faces living in the shadows for the rest of his life.

Sad that we now live in a world that a family that has nothing to do with the Zimmerman case now fear for their lives.  Thanks Mr. President, and MSM.

Rich fat-cat businessman sued to pay employees money owed..

Here's an example of a connected Rich Guy finally being held to paying hard-working employees the money earned, that he had been withholding.  These five men just want to be paid for work they did for his organization.  It's a shame they had to go to court to get what was owed them:

Sued for non-payment by a group of coaches, the owner of Sacramento's moribund minor league football team vowed today to make good on the debt.

The majority owner of the Sacramento Mountain Lions also told The Bee that he hopes the team and the league can resume operations next spring.

He acknowledged that his coaches are still owed pay after the Mountain Lions and the entire United Football League suspended operations during mid-season last fall.

"I'm committed to pay them and they will be paid," he said. He added that the team's players have been paid.

Did I forget to mention that the majority owner is Paul Pelosi, husband of Nancy Pelosi?  Here I thought Democrats were all for taking care of the workers and the "little guy".  Why does Mr. Pelosi hate the working class so much?

What a joke this Administration is..

First, they outsource implementation of Obamacare to a British compnay.  Second, Obamacare is such a mess, it gets delayed for a year.  Now we learn the firm they outsourced to is under investigation:

That contract, announced in late June, is among the largest Affordable Care Act grants made so far, expected to cover the hiring of 1,500 workers who will process a wave of health coverage applications.

In the United Kingdom, Serco Group reportedly overbilled the government by “tens of millions of pounds” under a contract to monitor offenders on parole and individuals released on bail, according to an audit conducted by the country’s Justice Ministry.

The British government plans to review all of its contracts with the U.K.-based firm and put on hold a separate contract Serco had secured with the country’s prison system.

“They do not believe that anything dishonest has taken place,” Chris Grayling, the British justice minister, told Parliament regarding Serco. “But we have agreed that if the audit does show dishonest action, we will jointly call in the relevant authorities to address it.”

I'm sure there is nothing there.

If this were a Republican administration, we would be hearing about fraud, cronyism, kickbacks, failed leadership, and more.

A Democrat in office changes all that.

How does the 2013 Game Six game stack up against other elimination games?

Deadspin did something pretty cool.  They developed a system to assign a point value for different categories, and then ranked NBA Finals elimination games.  This year had two elimination games (6 and 7).  Here's where they fit in with history:

Here's every shot LBJ made in Game 7, mirrored (so the shots made at the other end are here too-hence the leftie shots), in one simple place.  Lotsa LeBrons on the court, plus I think Battier was open.

 

Powerful testominy on The Hill today..

Look for this to be repeated over and over in the coming days from various Tea Party groups:

 

What an eloquent speaker.