More Obamacare lies and bull

Consider this story I just came across, admittedly on 'LifeChoice News', but carrying a local television story from Sherman, Texas.

The story is this: this self-employed contractor was previously on his wife's insurance, but her employer stopped providing coverage.  A lot of employers have used the excuse of the Affordable Care Act to stop providing spousal coverage, when Obamacare in fact has little to do with it.

Anyway, back to the Hubbses.

Jon Stewart on why the GOP love Putin (it to Obama)

This is all you will ever know about the ridiculous Republic hypocrisy that criticizes Obama for being simultaneously weak and an unconstitutional tyrant, and then praises Putin, for being a strong unconstitutional tyrant.

Hmm... fascinating.  Let me see if I have this straight.  Barack Obama is a weak, mom jeans-wearing DICTATOR-KING!!!  Weak mom jean tyrants are the worst tyrants of all!

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US military tells Jack Bauer: Cut out the torture scenes ... or else!

Even if I do say so myself, it is nice to know that this blog is read in high places (by which I do not mean behind the bike sheds at Eton). No sooner do I make a point about the depiction of torture in 24, than The Independent reports that Brigadier General Patrick Finnegan of the United States Military Academy at West Point has hopped on a plane to Hollywood to complain to Fox about the effect the show was having on troops in Iraq and on America's image abroad.

Says Gen. Finnegan:

"I'd like them to stop. They should do a show where torture backfires... The kids see it and say, 'If torture is wrong, what about 24'?

"The disturbing thing is that although torture may cause Jack Bauer some angst, it is always the patriotic thing to do."

While I would quibble with the last point (torture never causes Jack any angst because it is the 'patriotic thing to do'), it is nice to know that I am not a hyper-sensitive politically correct loon, and the powers that be do take these things seriously.