ObamaKare, as few persons realize, doesn’t fully take place until 2014.  Two things will have occurred by then:

1. Mr Obama will be well into his second term and completely unwilling to suspend ObamaKare; or
2. Another will occupy the White House and ObamaKare’s true devastating impact will not be known until at least halfway into that new presidency;

This was all quite calculated.  If Mr Obama was in office, he would refuse to halt its deleterious effect on the nation.  And if not, no one would know precisely how it would adversely strike America until it was too late.  In both cases, Mr Obama will have his plan taken — in absentia — into fruition.

Luckily, now, we have some major hints before our very faces.  As in: employers are about to drop YOU like a hot rock:

From the WashingtonExaminer.com:

Business owners will pay $4 billion more in taxes under President Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA)  than the Congressional Budget Office had previously expected.

“According to the updated estimates, the amount of deficit reduction from penalty payments and other effects on tax revenues under the ACA will be $5 billion more than previously estimated,” the CBO reported today. “That change primarily effects a $4 billion increase in collections from such payments by employers, a $1 billion increase in such payments by individuals, and an increase of less than $500 million in tax revenues stemming from a small reduction in employment-based coverage, which will lead to a larger share of total compensation taking the form of taxable wages and salaries and a smaller share taking the form of nontaxable health benefits.”

In short, CBO revised the Obamacare tax burden upward by $4 billion for businesses and $1 billion to $1.5 billion for individual workers.

CBO couldn’t help but bump into Chief Justice John Roberts controversial decision uphold the individual mandate as a constitutional exercise of Congress’s taxing power. The report dubs the individual mandate a “penalty tax” — that is, “a penalty paid to the Treasury by taxpayers when they file their tax returns and enforced by the Internal Revenue Service.”

Further, the consequences are already occurring up front.  From the WashingtonTimes.com:

About one in 10 employers plan to drop health coverage when key provisions of the new health care law kick in less than two years from now, according to a survey to be released Tuesday by the consulting company Deloitte.

Nine percent of companies said they expect to stop offering coverage to their workers in the next one to three years, the Wall Street Journal reported. Around 81 percent said they would continue providing benefits and 10 percent said they weren’t sure.

The companies, though, said a lot will depend on how future provisions of the law unfold, since most of the key parts are scheduled to take effect in 2014. One in three respondents said they could stop offering coverage if the law requires them to provide more generous benefits than they do now, if a tax on high-cost plans takes effect in 2018 as scheduled or if they decide it would be cheaper for them to pay the penalty for not providing insurance.

While small business don’t face fines for failing to offer coverage, companies with 50 or more full time employees face a penalty starting at $2,000 per worker.

And if the fine is less than the cost of keeping a worker on healthcare, guess what?

You WILL have your healthcare uncovered by your employer, and you WILL be kicked into the massive garbage bucket of ObakaKare.  You and every welfare cheat and Free Cheeser imaginable.  You are now EQUAL.

Unless you’re in your 20s and 30s, ObakaKare won’t have a thing to do with you.  You’ll be nothing but a drain on its inefficient system.

Value of life?  As the Brits say: ZED.

BZ

BZ

Yoni the Blogger had some wonderful observations regarding John Holmes during the Monday afternoon Hugh Hewitt show: all you needed was one permit holder in the theater at the time, and all Mr Holmes needed was one shot to the face — a gas mask is not bulletproof — or a muzzle directly under the man’s chin.  Frankly, these two scenarios make me smile.

That said, John Holmes is simply crazy.  Period.  The gun was the tool.  The brain was malfunctioning.  The motive was simple: the man is crazy.  He is not a TEA Party member, he is not a Fascist, he is not a member of NAMBLA.  The man is crazy.  See above photograph of Mr Holmes in his first court appearance, Monday, July 23rd.  I leave you to draw your own conclusions.

As an aside, an unforeseen element weighs in: rapper Ice-T: guns are the last form of defense against tyranny.

Many and most of the Talking Heads have/are weighing in on the Aurora shootings.  Many or most of them are excreting: take guns away.

Because, after all, that most stringent of gun control is working SO well in, say, New York City.  Or Washington, DC.  Or Chicago, Illinois. The home town of Barack HUSSEIN Obama.  Or Barry Soetoro.  Choose your lie.

To more completely focus: the strictest gun laws exist in NYC.  Let’s check out their statistics, shall we?  Not good.

Isn’t it odd that the greatest surge in recent crime statistics — gun crime, specifically — seems to originate from the areas with the toughest gun laws?

Gun crime spiking in Montana?  North Dakota?  Wyoming?  Pretty much any of the so-called “flyover states”?  Uh: no.

Oddly enough, only in the areas where the greatest concentration of populations occur and, by this dint, the greatest number of Leftists reside.

I wonder: could there POSSIBLY be a correlation?

Nah.

BZ

[And many thanks to GeeeeeZ!]

Anita Moncrief is a “coon at a Klan party,” according to a commenter on her blog following her speech at C-PAC in 2010.  That comment, of course, from a Leftist.

At roughly 9 minutes each, the two videos below will explain much to you and reveal that — oddly enough — much of what you thought about Leftists is quite correct.  These videos were recorded at C-PAC, Orlando, Florida, on September 23rd of 2011.

Followed with:

This is how Leftists work and how they think and how they succeed.  It’s about power and control and philosophy, and the people they allege to promote are nothing more than stepping stones to various positions of power and money and corruption — witness ACORN.

Include the Middle Class in ACORN?  Hell no.  ACORN telling the truth about corruption?  Hell no.  Any of the DEM/MSM wanting to cover said corruption — like the New York Times, CNN and others?  Hell no.  As Moncrief indicates, this information was purposely buried by the DEM/MSM because it might have tainted the chances for Mr Obama’s election.

Which is why I’m going to continue to point out the facts and disappointments and hypocrisy of Mr Obama, his minions, his philosophies and those of his supporters who, at this point, have predominantly no one save themselves to blame for the current state of this nation.

The tack by Leftists from now until election: AVOID THE FACTS.  Make distractions, make feints, make personal attacks.

Because Mr Obama cannot stand on his own two feet with regard to any actual accomplishments in his term — with the exception of his aggrandizement, his arrogance and the continuing display of his NPD.

BZ

Directly following the July 20th mass killing of 12 persons at a midnight showing of the new Batman movie in Aurora, Colorado — Mexican President Felipe Calderon deigns to lecture America about its gun laws.

From Reuters.com:

(Reuters) – Mexican President Felipe Calderon condemned U.S. gun laws as “mistaken” and urged Washington to review them after a shooter killed 12 people and injured more than 50 others at a U.S. movie theater on Friday.

But Mexico’s president, who has repeatedly called on Washington to tighten gun controls to stop weapons flowing from the United States into the hands of Mexican drug cartels, said U.S. weapons policy needed a rethink after the killings.

“Because of the Aurora, Colorado tragedy, the American Congress must review its mistaken legislation on guns. It’s doing damage to us all,” Calderon said.

The presidency of Calderon, who leaves office at the end of November, has been overshadowed by his efforts to crack down on the drug gangs. Fighting among the cartels and their clashes with the state have killed more than 55,000 people since 2007.

Calderon has also urged Washington to revive a ban on assault weapons in the United States that expired in 2004.

My, how that seems to entirely reek of the pot calling the kettle “black.”  Hypocrisy, thy name is Felipe Calderon.

Please allow me to, via this blog, remind President Calderon of a few things, a la a widely-known liberal outlet called Wikipedia — so that my various Trolls won’t accuse me of being nothing more than the Sierra Nevada outlet for Fox News:

– Violent crime against journalistas:  15 journalists have been murdered in Mexico since 2000 alone.^[20] Few of the perpetrators have been brought to justice. One of the more prominent cases was that of syndicated columnist Francisco Arratia Saldierna, a prominent and well-known journalist who wrote a column called Portavoz (or “Spokesman”). The column featured topics such as corruption, organized crime, and drug trafficking.^[21]

Arratia’s murder, which was particularly brutal, and others like it, sparked demands from other journalists that then-President Vicente Fox do more to enforce security and bring those responsible for the murders to justice. In 2004, a group of 215 reporters and editors sent an urgent letter to President Fox and other federal authorities, demanding that they address these concerns. The letter represented a massive communication effort coming from professionals from 19 of the nation’s 31 states. The key demand was that violent crimes against journalists be made federal crimes, so they would be investigated and prosecuted by federal officers and not by local officials whom the letter claims could be the same people who commit the crimes.^[21]

The effect of these crimes has been the self-censorship of many journalists, due to fears of retribution from criminals.^[20] The situation has earned attention from prominent global organizations such as the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Center for Journalism and Public Ethics (CEPET). Amerigo Incalcaterra of the OHCHR advocated the protection of journalists and the preservation of freedom of speech, calling it “essential for the consolidation of democracy and the rule of law in this country”.^[20]

Seems to me that a paltry handful of journalists have been killed in this country since its inception.  To wit:

– Chauncey Bailey, a black journalist in Oakland, was killed in 2007 during his investigation of a business called “Your Black Muslim Bakery.”  Three shotgun blasts to the chest usually do it.  Here’s a shocker: “The Mossberg shotgun used in the murder was later identified as one stolen during a liquor store vandalism 2 years prior suspected to have been committed by members of Your Black Muslim Bakery.^[14]  This was a black-on black killing committed for betrayal and cash.

– Don Bolles, whose killing was linked to the Mafia.  He died in a 1976 car bombing.

– Mark Kellogg died in 1876, killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn.  Yes, we’re reaching here, trying to find murdered journalistas in America.

– Anne Presley.  She died in a 2008 home invasion.  This was not politically or fiscally motivated by any semblance of organized crime.  Yes, I am reaching.

– Jennifer Servo.  She was killed by a suspected co-worker. Yes, much reaching here also.

As all of my college professors would say: contrast and compare.  Then contrast and compare the number of cops, judges, politicians and civilians killed by Mexicans in Mexico against those in the US, factoring for overall percentile of population.

Then factor in overall national corruption on the local, state and federal levels between both countries.

Then factor in statistics: ONE in every TEN crimes is actually REPORTED in Mexico.

And let us not forget the age-old concept of La Mordida.  Any American who has traveled by car in Mexico can tell you of this and regale you with multiple tales.

In conclusion, my own little bon mot to President Felipe Calderon: fuck you.  Clean up your own Pampers before you decide to conceptually walk across MY border and try to dribble your shit down MY leg.

I don’t quite think I can make my opinion much more clear and concise than that.

BZ