‘Train wreck’ Obamacare begins to unravel; massive government boondoggle set to self-destruct by 2015


English: President Barack Obama's signature on...

English: President Barack Obama’s signature on the health insurance reform bill at the White House, March 23, 2010. The President signed the bill with 22 different pens. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Something to think about Americans and what it might mean for all Western countries. Rubbish, you might say? But what if it is reality?

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, Editor of NaturalNews.com:

(NaturalNews) Even before it is fully implemented, Obamacare is already starting to self-destruct. The White House announced last week it will simply invent its own interpretation of the law and “delay the enforcement” of the employer Obamacare mandate for another year, to 2015. This, we are told, is to allow businesses more time to “smooth” compliance with the law, but that’s only the cover story. In reality, the entire private sector economy was preparing to fire tens of millions of workers, cut their hours and radically downsize companies in order to avoid going bankrupt under Obamacare mandates that no one can afford.

Described as a “train wreck” by one of its original authors (Sen. Baucus), and called a “fiasco for the ages” by the Wall Street Journal, Obamacare is a massive government boondoggle that’s headed for complete disaster.

In a desperate effort to get out of the way of that oncoming train, insurance companies are scrambling to flee the market entirely. America’s largest health insurer, UnitedHealth, has just announced it’s closing shop in California and walking away from all health insurance customers there.

That’s how bad Obamacare really is, even for the insurance companies: it’s better to close up shop than even attempt to serve customers under the government’s onerous rules.

U.S. businesses, meanwhile, are engaged in a new wave of job offshoring to India, Pakistan and the Philippines, where Obamacare doesn’t exist and an entire workers’ salary can be less than the cost of health insurance in the U.S. all by itself. The realization has hit everyone who owns or runs a business: Obamacare will bankrupt America’s private sector unless businesses take proactive measures to minimize the hiring U.S. workers.

This is especially true in low-wage jobs — such as the food service industry — where an employee’s contribution to a business simply isn’t that valuable to begin with.

When will the Obamacare train wreck completely derail?

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San Diego Model Railroad Museum in Balboa Park


Mind-blowing, a treat for model enthusiasts.

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San Diego’s Balboa Park claims to be the largest municipal cultural park in the nation. Within Balboa Park are many museums, including the San Diego Model Railroad Museum.

San Diego Model Railroad Museum in Balboa Park

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At 27,000 square feet, the San Diego Model Railroad Museum is one of the largest indoor model railroad displays in the world, one of the largest model railroad displays in North America, and the only accredited model railroad-themed museum in the United States.

San Diego Model Railroad Museum in Balboa Park

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San Diego Model Railroad Museum in Balboa Park

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The individual HO and N scale layouts are among largest of their type.

Construction of the model railroads is accomplished by volunteer club members. Complete construction of any specific layout can take many years.

San Diego Model Railroad Museum in Balboa Park

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San Diego Model Railroad Museum in Balboa Park

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San Diego Model Railroad Museum in Balboa Park

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San Diego Model Railroad Museum in Balboa Park

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San Diego Model Railroad Museum in Balboa Park

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Now it’s time to gather the children around the computer monitor to watch some model train videos. Shortest to longest:

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Hot weather and climate change – a mountain from a molehill?


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This is a WUWT post  – Guest essay by Steve Goreham, Originally published in The Washington Times.

It is reposted rather than reblogged because I have just read in the Australian Herald-Sun today, an article purporting to prove that global warming is real and dangerous.

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My searching so far to offer a counter to what I believe is more blatant misinformation, led me here and will do very well as a start. Just had a hiccup thought that they meant “hottest decade on record” for the 21st Century and that would indeed be true.

Regardless, the amount of claimed warming, as discussed by Steve Goreham in his article, is not statistically significant. In his post, it is interesting that airport temperatures are quoted. They are notoriously influenced by local heating, increased traffic and modern jet engine sources.

Now looking forward to a response from Anthony or perhaps Andrew Bolt (Herald-Sun columnist), to really get stuck into the UN over this claim.

On Sunday, Death Valley temperatures reached 129oF, a new June record high for the United States, according to the National Weather Service.

Temperatures at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas reached 117oF, tying the previous record set in 1942 and 2005. National Geographic, NBC News, and other media ran stories attributing the Southwest heat wave to human-caused global warming. But history shows that today’s temperatures are nothing extraordinary.

The United States high temperature record was set in 1913, measured in Death Valley on July 10th. Twenty-three of the 50 US state high temperature records date back to the decade of the 1930s. Seventy percent of state high records were set prior to 1970.

The alarm about climate change is all about one degree. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), global surface temperatures have increased about 1.3oF (0.7oC) since 1880. Proponents of the theory of man-made warming claim that this is evidence that man-made greenhouse gases are raising global temperatures.

One degree over more than 130 years isn’t very much. In contrast, Chicago temperatures vary from about -5oF to 95oF, about 100 degrees, each year. Continue reading

As well as the link is contained above, the source article is here, the home page for WUWT is here.

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Peter H. Gleick, ‘genius’


It pays to not believe everything you read. This applies to all information. However, when the information is either confirmed by reliable reporting or, as in this case, proven to be wrong, the reader can make a sensible assessment.
The fact that blatant lies, including pathetic ones such as revealed here, are offered in order to support the AGW fallacies, should make most people sit back and think. Hopefully to keep reading with an open mind rather than accept being brainwashed.

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The Australian Bureau of Meteorology Gets it Wrong


I know we are ‘down-under’ but this map orientation is absurd.
Nevertheless, errors from the Australian BOM have to have been deliberate and create a bias which supports the ‘global warming’ theory. Great science, what?

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Some bankers have compassion.


This was emailed to me by a friend and deserves a place here.

Strange how one can cry from hurt, anger, brutality and devastation, causes of sadness,  yet also when its because of the opposite, when your heart is touched by compassion and joy.

It is nice to offer something of the latter, instead of the endless supply of injustices that destroy our lives.

Here’s a great story….  JUST WATCH THIS.  THE THREE PEOPLE TALKING ONLY TAKES A SECOND OR SO AND THEN THE VIDEO STARTS, IT IS REALLY SOMETHING SPECIAL TO SEE

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Eminent New Honorary Members Join 9/11 Consensus Panel: Italian Judge Ferdinando Imposimato, French Director Mathieu Kassovitz, and Author James W. Douglass


An addition to the many articles reasonably questioning the authenticity of the official 9/11 story.

COTO Report

By The 9/11 Consensus Panel
COTO Report

NEW YORK, June 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Amidst growing doubts about its origins, the tragedy of September 11, 2001, continues to fuel the war on terror.

Meanwhile, disturbing evidence long suppressed in the media is surfacing through the 24-member 9/11 Consensus Panel’s scientific review of official claims that 19 diminutive Muslim hijackers defeated America’s defenses.

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The Federal Reserve Is Paying Banks NOT To Lend 1.8 Trillion Dollars To The American People


An extract:
This explains why all of the crazy money printing that the Fed has been doing has not caused tremendous inflation yet. Most of the money has not even gotten into the economy. The Fed has been paying banks not to lend it out.

But now that big pile of money is sitting out there, and at some point it is going to come pouring in to the U.S. economy. When that happens, we could very well see an absolutely massive tsunami of inflation.

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Bias, bias everywhere


An opinion deserving serious consideration.

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

For hundreds of years, medicine was driven by anecdote and personal beliefs, without the slightest supportive evidence. In the nineteen twenties the most common operation done was ‘removal of toxic colon.’ Toxic colons were believed to be responsible for almost any symptom you could think of.

  • Headache…..toxic colon
  • Anxiety…toxic colon
  • Stomach pain…toxic colon… obviously
  • Cramps…toxic colon, etc. etc.

Surgeons became blindingly wealthy cutting out significant lengths of the large bowel in those who could afford it. This operation, and the greed and stupidity that drove it, is outlined in the book ‘Doctors Dilemmas’, by George Bernard Shaw.  He went on to say that: ‘If you pay people to cut things out of you, then that it exactly what they are going to do.’

Not many people have their toxic colons removed nowadays, in fact no-one does, as the condition no longer even exists. But many people still have…

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New Zealand – Bitterly-cold winds, freezing temps and up to 1 metre of snow


This is a good counter to the warmist rave about all the “record” high temperatures.

As a single event it scientifically carries little weight, but warmists need to be reminded that such events are just as meaningful, or not, as record high temperatures, which they love to love.

Scientifically, cold events balance hot events to moderate the computed “global average”. Given the amount of fudging that goes on with records, that might be more academic than real.

BTW, in checking the potential ‘related articles’ offered by ‘wordpress’, a particular one discusses the use of the term “warmist”. That author’s conclusion is to accept that it is accurate on the basis that it is true if applied to a person believing the planet is warming, and that it is not necessarily an offensive term. This is encouraging to me as I see no offense intended in using the word to define a supporter of the AGW theories and I mean no offense when I use it in that context. On our side of the “climate change fence” so to speak, ‘skeptic’ is not offensive if it defines one who has, or sees, reason to doubt the science or agenda of the “warmists”. ‘Denialist’,  on the other hand, can be offensive because, although it is true that I, for example, deny the “truth” that is accepted by “warmists”, I am not denying much of what I would be being blamed for.

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