WASHINGTON – The number of people in the U.S. who are in poverty is on track for a record increase on President Barack Obama's watch, with the ranks of working-age poor approaching 1960s levels that led to the national war on poverty.
Sunday, October 03, 2010
Thursday, September 30, 2010
How is your obubba care working out?
At OSU
Employee health insurance cost goes from 395 to 476 and a new charge because they can... Of 25 a month to employee on top. Covers less, pays less, and the spouse side goes from 395 to 716 a month. 182% Increase folks.... Not a small chunk of change.
Cost to live is now 8592 a year for me.
The check for my fathers funeral was 7500. And we cannot pay the additional cost so..... Looks like a simple choice, pay the increase till we bankrupt or drop coverage and bankrupt when another big bill hits. Plus prescriptions will now cost more....
This comes on top on no raise in four years to cover cost of living...
How many of you can absorb a new 325 a month charge unexpected?
It is cheaper to die!
And I have known a person my whole life who has worked for same company for their entire life, never late, never misses lots of days for sickness, who can be counted on to get it done, who for 15 of those years NEVER received a raise let alone a thank you, and is now in the fourth year of no raise again, and yet this comes along...
No wonder even McDonalds is thinking of dropping health care for their employees...
Do I dislike Obubba, yes, but not for why you think, I dislike how he and the other idiots have screwed up America, my country and home! And now they are messing with our future for our kids and grandkids!
Employee health insurance cost goes from 395 to 476 and a new charge because they can... Of 25 a month to employee on top. Covers less, pays less, and the spouse side goes from 395 to 716 a month. 182% Increase folks.... Not a small chunk of change.
Cost to live is now 8592 a year for me.
The check for my fathers funeral was 7500. And we cannot pay the additional cost so..... Looks like a simple choice, pay the increase till we bankrupt or drop coverage and bankrupt when another big bill hits. Plus prescriptions will now cost more....
This comes on top on no raise in four years to cover cost of living...
How many of you can absorb a new 325 a month charge unexpected?
It is cheaper to die!
And I have known a person my whole life who has worked for same company for their entire life, never late, never misses lots of days for sickness, who can be counted on to get it done, who for 15 of those years NEVER received a raise let alone a thank you, and is now in the fourth year of no raise again, and yet this comes along...
No wonder even McDonalds is thinking of dropping health care for their employees...
Do I dislike Obubba, yes, but not for why you think, I dislike how he and the other idiots have screwed up America, my country and home! And now they are messing with our future for our kids and grandkids!
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
From my friend Ryan Reid comes this ditty....
Slow me down, LORD, Ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind. Steady my hurried pace with a vision of the eternal reach of time. Give me, amid the confusion of the day, the calmness of the everlasting hills. Break the tensions of my nerves and muscles with the soothing music of the singing streams that live in my memory. Help me to know the magical, restoring power of sleep. Teach me the art of taking minute vacations of slowing down to look at a flower, to chat with a friend, to pat a dog, to read a few lines from a good book. Slow me down, Lord, and inspire me to send my roots deep into the soil of life's enduring values that I may grow toward the stars of my greater destiny."
Third dumbest deal in Washington and she is a true winner of the title!
Had the honor to listen to the "third" dumbest person in Washington and she fits the title to a t.
I am convinced they (all in Washington) think we are the stupidest folks on this earth and the only way we can possibly understand is for them to talk in cliches and talk DOWN to us.
I am convinced they (all in Washington) think we are the stupidest folks on this earth and the only way we can possibly understand is for them to talk in cliches and talk DOWN to us.
I am sick of being treated like a third country.
Would be nice to hear some things like honesty, understanding, appreciation, and consideration.
But hey, we were smart enough to elect them, right!
That must be why they think we are dumb. Look at the mess there we elected to serve. Maybe we are getting treated like we deserve for not doing our homework on choosing the last round and obubba and his band of nuts are exactly what we got because of our apathy?
Monday, September 27, 2010
Thursday, September 23, 2010
xaminer Editorial: Obamacare is even worse than critics thought
Six months ago, President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rammed Obamacare down the throats of an unwilling American public. Half a year removed from the unprecedented legislative chicanery and backroom dealing that characterized the bill's passage, we know much more about the bill than we did then. A few of the revelations:
» Obamacare won't decrease health care costs for the government. According to Medicare's actuary, it will increase costs. The same is likely to happen for privately funded health care.
» As written, Obamacare covers elective abortions, contrary to Obama's promise that it wouldn't. This means that tax dollars will be used to pay for a procedure millions of Americans across the political spectrum view as immoral. Supposedly, the Department of Health and Human Services will bar abortion coverage with new regulations but these will likely be tied up for years in litigation, and in the end may not survive the court challenge.
» Obamacare won't allow employees or most small businesses to keep the coverage they have and like. By Obama's estimates, as many as 69 percent of employees, 80 percent of small businesses, and 64 percent of large businesses will be forced to change coverage, probably to more expensive plans.
» Obamacare will increase insurance premiums -- in some places, it already has. Insurers, suddenly forced to cover clients' children until age 26, have little choice but to raise premiums, and they attribute to Obamacare's mandates a 1 to 9 percent increase. Obama's only method of preventing massive rate increases so far has been to threaten insurers.
» Obamacare will force seasonal employers -- especially the ski and amusement park industries -- to pay huge fines, cut hours, or lay off employees.
» Obamacare forces states to guarantee not only payment but also treatment for indigent Medicaid patients. With many doctors now refusing to take Medicaid (because they lose money doing so), cash-strapped states could be sued and ordered to increase reimbursement rates beyond their means.
» Obamacare imposes a huge nonmedical tax compliance burden on small business. It will require them to mail IRS 1099 tax forms to every vendor from whom they make purchases of more than $600 in a year, with duplicate forms going to the Internal Revenue Service. Like so much else in the 2,500-page bill, our senators and representatives were apparently unaware of this when they passed the measure.
» Obamacare allows the IRS to confiscate part or all of your tax refund if you do not purchase a qualified insurance plan. The bill funds 16,000 new IRS agents to make sure Americans stay in line.
If you wonder why so many American voters are angry, and no longer give Obama the benefit of the doubt on a variety of issues, you need look no further than Obamacare, whose birthday gift to America might just be a GOP congressional majority.
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Watch out for the Super Harvest Moon
Watch out for the Super Harvest Moon (Tonight, Wed., Sept. 22)
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Sept. 22, 2010: For the first time in almost 20 years, northern autumn is
beginning on the night of a full Moon. The coincidence sets the stage for
a "Super Harvest Moon" and a must-see sky show to mark the change of
seasons.
The action begins at sunset on Sept 22nd, the last day of northern summer.
As the sun sinks in the west, bringing the season to a close, the full
Harvest Moon will rise in the east, heralding the start of fall. The two
sources of light will mix together to create a kind of 360-degree,
summer-autumn twilight glow that is only seen on rare occasions.
Keep an eye on the Moon as it creeps above the eastern skyline. The golden
orb may appear strangely inflated. This is the Moon illusion at work. For
reasons not fully understood by astronomers or psychologists, a
low-hanging Moon appears much wider than it really is. A Harvest Moon
inflated by the moon illusion is simply gorgeous.
The view improves as the night wears on.
Northern summer changes to fall on Sept. 22nd at 11:09 pm EDT. At that
precise moment, called the autumnal equinox, the Harvest Moon can be found
soaring high overhead with the planet Jupiter right beside it. The two
brightest objects in the night sky will be in spectacular conjunction to
mark the change in seasons.
The Harvest Moon gets its name from agriculture. In the days before
electric lights, farmers depended on bright moonlight to extend the
workday beyond sunset. It was the only way they could gather their
ripening crops in time for market. The full Moon closest to the autumnal
equinox became "the Harvest Moon," and it was always a welcome sight.
This one would be extra welcome because it is extra "Harvesty."
Usually, the Harvest Moon arrives a few days to weeks before or after the
beginning of fall. It's close, but not a perfect match. The Harvest Moon
of 2010, however, reaches maximum illumination a mere six hours after the
equinox. This has led some astronomers to call it the "Harvestest Moon" or
a "Super Harvest Moon." There hasn't been a comparable coincidence since
Sept 23, 1991, when the difference was about 10 hours, and it won't happen
again until the year 2029.
A Super Harvest Moon, a rare twilight glow, a midnight conjunction—rarely
does autumn begin with such celestial fanfare.
Enjoy the show!
From Tammy.....
Monday, September 20, 2010
Friday, September 17, 2010
Before and after!
Andrew in the middle of the Orange Line... on defense, quarterback is ready for snap... notice size of front three players, Andrew is down and ready too....
Grandma and I headed to OKC and then to Edmond last night to watch Andrew and the (Stillwater) Oklahoma Cowboys play football in the Edmond Football League.
Short version here... They WON, again... 19-6!
And guess what... with plays like this... is it any wonder? Andrew is in stance in middle of defense line and in the next photo he has the quarterback on his back, after blowing by not one, not two... but three of the defense's biggest players...
and this was the first series of plays!!! With young men playing like this, this team will be unbeatable!
Needless to say, his level of playing improved with each down and by the end of the game, their opponents were tripping clipping and doing about everything to stop him, and could not do it. I watched as this gentle giant ... came alive, and as the punches were thrown, his elbow found it's way to a player's chin who had actually punched him in the play before, and he fell accidentally on the biggest player holding him to the ground by accident...
In the end ... Andrew Blankinship was the star and my photos prove it, not my words!
PS.. Andrew, this is why you don't want the ball.... they will all try to do what you did so great last night... You were the big monster in the barn... and played great!
This is how it's done!
and he blew by their big 3 and booooooom! have a dirt sandwich Mr. QB!
Uncle Jake will be proud to see this photo.. having gone to the OU and Dallas Cowboys football camps... when he played with the Perkins-Tryon Demons... He could do this too..
Andrew, you ruled. It takes a team to win, and in a very short amount of time, the Oklahoma Cowboys have become just that. I saw them pull off plays one might expect from high school boys - with ease, passing and running.
Last night, in Edmond, it was Blankinship on Defense and Gundy on Offense that "led" their team to victory!
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Saturday, September 11, 2010
We remember.... and we pray....
On September 11, 2001, Americans awoke to evil on our shores. On this solemn day of remembrance, we hold the victims and their families in our thoughts andprayers. We recall the many acts of heroism on that day, and we honor those who work tirelessly to prevent another attack. May God bless our great country and those who defend her.
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