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A sense of the absurd spread on the Senate floor as lawmakers voted a second time within hours to reject a House-passed funding stopgap shortly before a midnight deadline to avoid a government shutdown.
Senators defeated the House proposal along party lines, 54-46 There were no defections. The measure would have delayed the individual mandate, a core piece of the Affordable Care Act, and prevented congressional lawmakers and staff from receiving federal subsidies when they enter healthcare exchanges.
The situation appeared surreal to lawmakers as the clock ticked toward midnight and there appeared no evidence of progress or even negotiations between the two sides.
“Three and a half hours essentially until the government begins to shut down. Can you believe this?” said Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), the chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. “We are the United States of America. We are a superpower. We’re supposed to be a nation governed by rule of law and we’re about to shut down.”
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) invoked Albert Einstein's definition of insanity as performing the same action repeatedly and expecting a different result.
He panned the House-passed legislation for increasing the out-of-pocket healthcare costs of lawmakers and staffers.
“This time the House has attached a poison pill that would punish 16,000 congressional staff,” he said.
Senate Democrats left little doubt before the vote they would strike the amendments attached to a stopgap bill funding government through Dec. 15.
Reid declared earlier in the day that Senate Democrats would not accept any changes to ObamaCare. He said they would not even negotiate oven the landmark law until after Congress raises the debt ceiling, which is due to expire Oct. 17.
“We are not going to mess around with ObamaCare, no matter what they do,” Reid said.
“They should get a life,” he said of House conservatives. “It is the law, declared constitutional. The exchanges are coming on board tomorrow.”
Democrats voted in unison against delaying the individual mandate after nine House Democrats defected from their leadership earlier in the evening to postpone the controversial penalty.
The new law’s open-enrollment period begins Oct. 1.
Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Republicans are desperate to stop the law before Tuesday to prevent people from learning more about the law’s benefits.
“That’s why Republicans want to stop ObamaCare. They don’t want these exchanges to be announced. They don’t want people to see these options. They know what’s going to happen,” he said.
Senate Democratic leaders renewed their call on Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to put the Senate-passed stopgap up for a vote on the Senate floor.
“If they call it for a vote, it will pass. They know it.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Reid would deserve the blame if the government shuts down Tuesday.
The Republican Party has a new heart, says Matt Drudge—or perhaps at least two.
As Texas Senator Ted Cruz was into his filibuster-like maneuver to bring attention to defunding Obamacare, Drudge took to Twitter to proclaim that the "heart" of the party has shifted.
As Cruz took center stage on the floor of the U.S. Senate, Drudge Tweeted that "Ted Cruz and Rand Paul have taken over the heart of the party." Many would add Utah's Senator Mike Lee to that list. But there was more. Drudge had a warning for New Jersey's top man: "Christie going to have uphill battle against emotion," Drudge said.
Drudge has identified where the momentum is in the GOP as of now. Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and others like Mike Lee now have the lead in the Republican Party.
The so-called “government shut down” and the furloughing of thousands of non-essential federal employees has not prevented the opening of a $2 billion dollar NSA spy center in Utah which will snoop on Americans’ private emails, Google searches and phone calls.

Image: NSA Spy Center, Utah.
As we highlighted yesterday, the shut down will only affect the tiny amount of services government provides that Americans actually like.
Rest assured, TSA grope downs, VIPR checkpoints, drone attacks, SWAT team raids, tax collection, torturing terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, arming jihadists in Syria and running guns to Mexican drug dealers will all continue unimpeded – as will NSA domestic spying.
Although the NSA itself refuses to confirm it, to all intents and purposes the agency’s mammoth new spy center in Bluffdale, Utah “may be open already,” according to the Denver Post.
“The facility is expected this fall to quietly begin sucking in massive amounts of information for the intelligence community and storing it in the cavernous buildings in Bluffdale, Utah, according to NSA officials — and it could be open now even as the agency faces scrutiny over efforts to collect data on Americans domestically,” writes Thomas Burr.
An NSA spokesperson said back in July that the center would be open by the “end of the fiscal year,” i.e., the end of September. The fact that lawmakers have failed to agree on legislation that will fund the government from today onwards isn’t an issue for the agency.
NSA spokeswoman Vanee Vines also recently acknowledged that the center, which covers 1 million square feet of space, is ready for each machine to be switched on. The center will hold 1 trillion terabytes of data. To put that in context, all of the books ever written in any language would need just 400 terabytes.
The facility is set to collect ”complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital “pocket litter,” according to Wired.
It will be filled with supercomputers that can run one thousand trillion calculations per second as part of a data mining process that seeks to identify suspects “before they commit a crime or associate with terror suspects,” state of the art pre-crime technology that puts the movie Minority Report to shame.
While the center itself will not analyze the data (it only has 200 employees), the information will be scrutinized “at other federal facilities by personnel who can remotely access the information stored in Bluffdale,” reports the Salt Lake Tribune.
The NSA “has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008,” according to a recent Washington Post report.
The most recent example of domestic snooping emerged only yesterday, when it was reported that the NSA, “is storing the online metadata of millions of internet users for up to a year, regardless of whether or not they are persons of interest to the agency.” The New York Times also reported that the NSA was exploiting such data to create, “sophisticated graphs of some Americans’ social connections that can identify their associates, their locations at certain times, their traveling companions and other personal information.”
This year’s series of revelations about the NSA’s corrupt practices on behalf of whistleblower Edward Snowden did not prompt the federal agency to become more transparent about its activities in Bluffdale.
Forget visiting the facility, despite your tax dollars paying for it, you’re not even allowed to drive into the car park. Even local officials were barred from a ceremony earlier this year to mark the project’s completion. Reporters were also not welcome.
“A few Utah dignitaries have received tours. Most of them have been reticent to discuss what they saw there,” reports the Salt Lake Tribune.
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By Oscar Y. Harward
Remember how Americans rejected ObamaCare in General Election 2010?
Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) of General Election 2014 is now acting the same in ‘cramming ObamaCare down (y)our throat’; acting the same as Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) did in General Election 2010 season in ‘cramming ObamaCare down (y)our throat’.
Americans are still rejecting ObamaCare as a continuation of a ‘job-killing’ law slowing and/or stopping our US economy.
President Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats refuse to ‘stop the spending’, restore our economy, and allow entrepreneurs to create jobs in the ‘private sector’. Most jobs created during Obama’s administration are more ‘government jobs’ in the ‘public sector’; more at taxpayers’ cost.
Have you ever seen so many falsifications as expressed by President Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats?
Thomas Jefferson once wrote in 1787, "And what country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants..."
They both voted for closure which let the bill go forward for a vote. As Cruz pointed out that would have been the time and place to stop the bill. Instead they voted to let it go to the floor where 51 votes was enough to pass it. Now they can tell us they voted against the law, but essentially they worked with Reid and it passed.
STAND UP! Speak OUT! RESPOND! Create Dialog! Let's go! RIGHT NOW! JOIN ME, TAKE AMERICA BACK!
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The statement below is from Senator Corker TN, ( R). The problem is that Obama has ignored laws, Congress and even judicial decisions. To me he will; use all of the confusion around Obama care, funding and other issues to cover up his executive orders enforcing the UN treaty without the consent of Congress.
Administration Must Seek Congressional Advice and Consent on U.N. Arms Trade Treaty
Asserting the Senates constitutional role on treaties, Senator Corker in a letter this week warned the Obama administration against taking any action to implement the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty without Senate advice and consent.
The ATT raises significant legislative and constitutional questions. Any act to implement this treaty, provisionally or otherwise, before the Congress provides its advice and consent would be fundamentally inconsistent with the U.S. Constitution, law, and practice, said Corker
Seymour Hersh: Bin Laden Raid “One Big Lie”
Pulitzer-prize wining journalist slams “pathetic” US media for failing to challenge White House
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
September 27, 2013
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh says that the raid which killed Osama Bin Laden in 2011 is “one big lie” and that “not one word” of the Obama administration’s narrative on what happened is true.

Image: President Obama.
In a wide-ranging interview published today by the Guardian, Hersh savages the US media for failing to challenge the White House on a whole host of issues, from NSA spying, to drone attacks, to aggression against Syria.
On the subject of the Navy Seal raid that supposedly resulted in the death of the Al-Qaeda terror leader, Hersh remarked, “Nothing’s been done about that story, it’s one big lie, not one word of it is true.”
Hersh added that the Obama administration habitually lies but they continue to do so because the press allows them to get away with it.
“It’s pathetic, they are more than obsequious, they are afraid to pick on this guy [Obama],” Hersh told the Guardian.
The raid that supposedly led to Bin Laden’s death has been shrouded in mystery for over two years. Speculation that the Obama administration may have embellished or outright lied about the true account of what happened has persisted, mainly because the White House has refused to publicly release images of Bin Laden’s body.
Although the White House said the corpse was immediately “buried at sea” in line with Islamic tradition, it quickly emerged that this was not standard practice.
Numerous analysts have claimed that Bin Laden had in fact been dead for years and that the raid on his alleged compound in Pakistan was little more than a stunt.
Other questions also persist, such as why the narrative and timeline of the raid has changed multiple times, why the White House initially claimed that “situation room” photos showed Obama watching the raid live when in fact there was a blackout on the live feed, and why neighbors in the immediate area surrounding the compound said with absolute certainty that they had never seen Bin Laden and that they knew of no evidence whatsoever to suggest he lived there.
During the rest of the Guardian interview, which is well worth reading in its entirety, Hersh lambastes the corporate press and particularly the New York Times, which he says spends “so much more time carrying water for Obama than I ever thought they would.”
Hersh’s solution is to shut down news networks like NBC and ABC and fire 90% of mainstream editors, replacing them with real journalists who are outsiders and not afraid to speak truth to power.
“The republic’s in trouble, we lie about everything, lying has become the staple,” concluded Hersh.
http://www.infowars.com/seymour-hersh-bin-laden-death-one-big-lie/
This is too much to let pass.
DO NOT ADD A SINGLE WORD Yes, he told us in advance what he planned to do. Few were listening. The following is a narrative taken from a 2008 Sunday morning televised "Meet The Press'. From Sunday's 07 Sept.2008 11:48:04 EST, Televised "Meet the Press" THE THEN Senator Obama was asked about his stance on the American Flag. General Bill Gann' USAF (ret.)asked Obama to explain WHY he doesn't follow protocol when the National Anthem is played. The General stated to Obama that according to the United States Code, Title 36,Chapter 10,Sec.171... During rendition of the national anthem, when the flag is displayed, all present (except those in uniform) are expected to stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. Or, at the very least,"Stand and Face It". NOW GET THIS !! 'Senator Obama replied : "As I've said about the flag pin, I don't want to be perceived as taking sides". "There are a lot of people in the world to whom the American flag is a symbol of oppression.." "The anthem itself conveys a war-like message. You know, the bombs bursting in air and all that sort of thing." (ARE YOU READY FOR THIS???) Obama continued : "The National Anthem should be 'swapped' for something less parochial and less bellicose. I like the song 'I'd Like To Teach the World To Sing'. If that were our anthem, then, I might salute it. In my opinion, we should consider reinventing our National Anthem as well as 'redesign' our Flag to better offer our enemies hope and love.It's my intention, if elected, to disarm America to the level of acceptance to our Middle East Brethren. If we, as a Nation of warring people, conduct ourselves like the nations of Islam, where peace prevails - - -perhaps a state or period of mutual accord could exist between our governments ...." When I become President, I will seek a pact of agreement to end hostilities between those who have been at war or in a state of enmity, and a freedom from disquieting oppressive thoughts. We as a Nation, have placed upon the nations of Islam, an unfair injustice which is WHY my wife disrespects the Flag and she and I have attended several flag burning ceremonies in the past". "Of course now, I have found myself about to become the President of the United States and I have put my hatred aside. I will use my power to bring CHANGE to this Nation, and offer the people a new path.My wife and I look forward to becoming our Country's First black Family. Indeed,CHANGE is about to overwhelm the United States of America " Yes, you read it right. I, for one, am speechless!!!

Satire by John W. Lillpop
Shutting down the United States government is very serious business, not to be taken lightly or flippantly. Our government is, after all, a huge coalition of incompetent bureaucrats engaged in entirely meaningless activities resulting in wasteful spending on grand scale, not seen elsewhere in our universe, and perhaps even beyond.
Imagine the vast vacuum that will be created when hundreds of thousands of otherwise unemployable loons like Lois Lerner are not clogging the highways and byways of our nation’s capitol, and not spending your great, great grandchildren into abject poverty.
Consider, too, the possible return of sanity to our decaying republic if the Oval Office is shuttered and boarded leaving The One with nothing to do but golf and work on his ESPN basketball picks for the 2014 Spring Madness debacle just six months hence!
Furloughing Barack Obama may be the only thing that can save America from the dual vices of bankruptcy and Sharia law!
And what if the shutdown included the State Department where boss man John Kerry, who once threw his military medals over the fence in the front of the White House to protest the Vietnam war, is forced to while away the hours on his sail boat instead of working 24/7 to toss the 2nd Amendment to wolves at the United Nations?
A shutdown may give We the People a chance to “Swift boat” Kerry once again.
And how might we all benefit if Ben Bernanke’s printing press was moth balled for a while, bringing an abrupt pause to the Quantitative Easing madness which will be unnecessary once the Obama spending addiction is treated?
What if coal-hating buzzards at the EPA were sent home, putting a hold on the evil plan to eliminate a private American industry via government fiat? How many jobs could be salvaged in the coal producing states?
And what if dedicated anarchists at Treasury who send monthly foreign aid checks to Mexico, Egypt, and other dysfunctional third-world nations were unable to send those checks starting October 1?
Imagine walking through an airport without being mauled by sexual predators posing as TSA agents!
Best of all, a shutdown could mean that the IRS would be unable to spend tax dollars to willfully promote the Democrat Party, and that those 16,000 heads which were to be hired for Obamacare can instead seek more suitable work as loan sharks and street prostitutes.
On and on the list goes.
A government shutdown could be the equivalent of every American citizen sharing in a multi-trillion-dollar power ball jackpot, without even buying a ticket.
Government shutdown good for America? Hell yes, in fact it may be our only hope for survival!
Yesterday while reading the news, I had the overwhelming urge to puke. I've been vigilant in watching the news, mentally sorting articles written by liberals into one category and those written by Constitutional Americans into the right category.
I thought I was nauseated from staring too long at the fine print on the screen until I realized there was a picture of Obama on every article I had read.
Every time I try to read the news, his face appears. He is either smirking or he looks belligerent in every pose. I'm sick of seeing his face.
I had a discussion about the problem with a dear friend in the wee hours of the morning. She confessed that, of late, she had experienced nausea when she saw him on television.
After our chat, I went to youtube and typed his "Obama" name (as opposed to any of his aliases) in the search option. I watched and listened to 2 videos that he "starred" in.
He ranted, boasted, strutted, preened, threatened and yelled insults to the non-obama-ites. Every time he opened his mouth, a lie fell out.
I long to turn on my television or surf the Internet and not see his face or hear his rants.
I've diagnosed my new, unique illness. I'm allergic to Obama and he's making me sick.
And yet another nightmare is arising from the monstrosity that is Obamacare. Child support ends at 18? Or is it now 26?
This is a real story: A hard working young man earns minimum wage and cannot afford a home of his own because he pays $400 per month for his 2 minor children. His monthly income after taxes is about $600.
He must live with a sibling in order to make support payments.
The cost of obama's nightmare insurance for him range from $300 to $600 per month.
He can't afford it and will be forced to pay a penalty to the IRS. He won't be able to pay the penalty and that means it will be withheld from his refund check which isn't equal to the penalty itself.
The IRS says they will keep your refund check if you owe child support. And, you owe child support because you can't come up with the money to buy obama's insurance because you are paying child support.
Obamacare is confusing and the consequences are even more confusing.
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Hello,
My son is a 17 year old teenage boy. I say boy because he has many lessons to learn as I did. However, he is more polite, tuned in and caring than I was at that age (maybe).
For sure he is precious in many ways. I am going to take an abbreviated approach.
I. Linkedin Profile will tell you a lot about myself and goals of forming; for profit, nonprofit and coauthor a book on autism with another mother.
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=53644897&trk=nav_responsive_tab_profile
II. 2013-2014 award from NAPW(National Ass of Prof. Women) http://www.napw.com/profile/111400006/Sandra-MalloAdcocr
III. Blogs with Resources I would love for you to check before you share. I have other writing I would love for you to look at but I also have a heart and passion for see this post;
http://reframingresources.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/9/ http://reframingresources.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/reframing-resources-wants-you-to-know/
http://reframingresources.wordpress.com/2013/09/09/this-is-childhood-cancer-awarness-month-and-more-health-news-from-ollamok/ *****This has 3 pages from the NIH: one has a downloadable handbook on cancer for kids, a page that tells how to explain cancer to kids and a page that has the latest research on kid's cancer's. If you share nothing else please share this one.
These others are good in my opinion too. http://reframingresources.wordpress.com/2013/09/08/true-success/ I think it goes with the mantra all kids are hero's.
**************************The next two have some good resources; as the bottom one does. And, the top one is informative on a a Transition project that needs to be dumped or changed. I want to be fair there is opinion here. The others above contain little of that. These below are loaded. They are statements from the heart. If I am wrong I want to learn about it. Or, if these programs help that much, I want to learn what will ultimately help our kids. http://reframingresources.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/project-search-or-robbing-disabled-youth-part-i/ http://reframingresources.wordpress.com/2013/09/09/transition-hints-dont-blame-schools-hold-all-accountable/
If you have read this far and want to read for fun here some articles/below or stories some instructors have given me praise on. If you do not then skip over please. I do not want to ruin my genuine chance to help for the sake of a chance at networking. However, it never hurts to try. Yet, I want you to know what is coming. Honesty usually pays off in the end.
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Your president ( a Muslim) has made November National Muslim Appreciation month.
Looks like some of them are attention whores and are starting early.
I appreciate how creative they get killing Christians, Jews and any other non-Muslims. I appreciate how peaceful they are. Does your religion condone the same?
http://nationalreport.net/obama-declares-november-national-muslim-appreciation-month/