ObamaCare Leads To Increased Cost For College Students

Published August 28, 2012 | By Iowadawg

A Young America’s Foundation activist forwarded an email from the Vice President for Finance at his school, Guilford College (Greensboro, NC), informing him that, “For the 2012-13 academic year, the annual cost of the student health insurance is increasing from $668 to $1,179. This insurance premium has been charged to your student account.”

Why the increase? “Our student health insurance policy premium has been substantially increased due to changes required by federal regulations issued on March 16, 2012 under the Affordable Care Act.”

Guilford College has been forced to raise their student premiums 76 percent, yet this administrator still insists on calling it the Affordable Care Act.

Seems a bit ironic, to say the least.

Guilford joins a long list of colleges raising their premiums. Virtually all current student insurance plans do not meet ObamaCare’s mandates, and Forbes reports colleges have been forced to drop their plans or raise their premiums rates as much as 1,112% (and no, that’s not a typo).

I’m shocked! You mean the government deciding what our insurance companies will offer will raise the prices of our insurance? Get outta here.
Sigh….

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I know I would not be in any coherent shape to play a second game.

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From HERE.

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Obama ok’s mass Muslim prayer at DNC – rejects Catholic priest’s prayer

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Illegal’s scholarship a bad deal for U.S. taxpayers

A Massachusetts-based immigration enforcement activist is appalled that a private school in her state is offering a scholarship for an illegal alien.

Hampshire College is a small liberal arts school in Amherst, Massachusetts, where school officials have announced that an endowment and scholarship will finance one illegal alien’s education every four years. So, beginning this fall, a student will receive an annual scholarship of at least $25,000.

Jessica Vaughan, a former foreign service officer for the U.S. State Department who now serves as director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, thinks “it’s appalling.”

“We’re talking about someone from a family that has benefitted from social services programs and all kinds of other publicly-funded benefits, when their family has not contributed anything close to that in taxes, who is scoffing at our laws by being here in the first place,” she asserts.

Read here.

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Before the salmon run starts coastal brown bears head to the sea at low tide to feed. The prize they seek are the abundance of clams buried under the sand. The bears superior sense of smell helps them easily locate these tasty morsels. They use their claws as precision tools to peel open the shell.

Clam diggers. Who knew?

Alaskan Brown Bear – Katmai – Alaska. by Nate-Zeman

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To be told that Sunni Islamism is about death—and killing—will not surprise the readers of AT or most people with above-room-temperature IQs. Sunni Islamism is about killing Joooos. It is about killing Christians. It is about killing other Muslims. It is about killing women. It is about killing the past. It is about killing themselves in its cause. It is about killing everyone and everything that is different from whoever is doing the killing at the moment.

But Barry Rubin, in a keen piece from his blog (and reproduced in The Jerusalem Post) lays out in detail the depths and consequences of the mortal treat posed by the three main elements of that force:

It’s the age of revolutionary Islamism, especially Sunni Islamism. And you better learn to understand what this is all about, real fast. (Shia Islamism, important mainly because of Iran and especially due to its nuclear ambitions is number two on the threat list. But that’s not our topic today.) Focusing on the Sunni tidal wave, the foundational bit of knowledge is that there are three types, and you better learn them all and their complex interrelationships because a lot of people are going to be misinforming you about this and getting others – never themselves, of course – killed.

Of al-Qaida he says:

They may be the worst guys, but they are not the West’s main global strategic problem. Everybody who isn’t basically a supporter of an al- Qaida group hates al-Qaida, except for the Taliban which is really sort of a similar version. Why? Simple. Because al-Qaida wants to overthrow every regime (they do play a little footsy with Iran but even that’s limited). Oh, and they also loathe Shia Muslims which makes for even more enemies and fewer potential allies.

Of the Salafis he says:

One thing is clear though: the Salafis’ goal is exactly the same as that of the Brotherhood. The only question is how fast to go, how radical to talk, and how much violence to use. And another thing is also clear: neither in Egypt, nor in Tunisia, nor in Gaza (where the Brotherhood is called Hamas) will the Salafis overthrow the Brotherhood people. We can be less sure about Syria where the balance of forces is not yet so clear.

Of The Brotherhood he says:

The Brotherhood is the Communist Party of Islamism. And you don’t have to take it from me; that was an idea expressed by the moderate, anti-Islamist brother of the Brotherhood’s founder. The Brotherhood wants a Sharia state. It would like a caliphate (run by itself, of course). It wants Israel wiped off the map and America kicked out of the Middle East. It wants women put into second-class citizenship and gays put into their graves. It wants Christians subordinated or thrown out.

Then of the whole sorry lot he goes to that dark corner about which we all have known, into which we all have been headed, and the consequences of which we have feared to speak:

They will lose. Just as the Communists did, just as the Nazis did, just as the Fascists and Japanese militarists did. But how many decades will it take? How many millions of people dead and injured? How much human potential and natural resources wasted? And will Western policy make easier the ultimate triumph of moderation, moderation that includes millions of anti-Islamist Muslims and also includes lots of Middle Eastern Berbers, Kurds, Turks, Iranians, Druse, Christians and – yes – Israel.

That’s it: They plan to and may well kill millions of us, and we will have to kill many more millions of them before the struggle ends–if it will!

He sums it up:

Stars Get In Your Eyes

From Iowahawk:

Special Iowahawk Guest Commentary
By Barack Obama, Stargazer-in-Chief

When I learned of the untimely passing of Neil Armstrong I was, like all Americans, deeply moved and saddened. I share your sense of loss for this American hero, even if his fame had been eclipsed by others over the years. But in our shared moment of grief, let us also celebrate his historic accomplishment in becoming the first astronaut eulogized by me, Barack Obama, our nation’s historic first African-American president.

Neil’s passing gives all of us all pause to consider deeper questions. What does it mean for the future of space exploration? How proud would Neil have been to have a famous historic president refer to him by first name? And, most importantly, how did his death inspire that historic president to make ever more gigantic leaps for mankind?

For one thing, it inspired me to venture off on a historic twilight photo mission in a Maryland cabbage field. There I stood, gazing into the night sky, providing a dramatic backlit silhouette of inspiration for generations of future space explorers. In the centuries to come, space fans around the world will look to this indelible dorm poster image of Barack Obama, representing humankind’s enduring pioneering spirit of exploration, and be spurred to dream their impossible dreams of Obama-like accomplishment.

As I stood looking into the night sky, at the billions upon billions of stars twinkling across their celestial field, amid the clicking of the photographer’s shutter, I couldn’t help but wonder if there were other life forms – perhaps other civilizations – out there. If so, were they looking back at us? Could they have powerful enough telescopes to see our planet in detail, and to observe the many ways I have worked tirelessly to make Earth a better place? Has my example served as an inspiration to the faraway aliens to work for their own extraterrestrial hope and change? It was a moment that drove home to me just how significant I am in the grand scheme of things.

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Damn! Outdoes our president by far in the perks section….

Vladimir Putin’s presidential job perks include four yachts, 58 aircraft and 20 homes: report
Vladimir Putin once compared ruling Russia to being a “galley slave”, but four yachts that come with the job, as well as a string of palaces and a wealth of luxury perks help explain his refusal to quit the presidency, leading critics said on Tuesday.

Listing 58 planes and helicopters and 20 homes with opulent fittings worthy of the tsars, not to mention 11 watches which alone are worth several times Putin’s annual salary, a report published under the ironic title “The Life of a Galley Slave” by opposition leader Boris Nemtsov denounced the lavish spending as an affront to millions of Russians living in dire poverty.

“One of the most serious reasons prompting V. Putin to hold on to power is the atmosphere of wealth and luxury to which he has become accustomed,” wrote the authors. “In a country where more than 20 million people barely make ends meet, the luxurious life of the president is a blatant and cynical challenge to society. We absolutely cannot put up with this.”

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Getting Rid of the ‘Likable’ President

From Andrew B. Wilson at American Spectator:

Barack Obama floats like a butterfly, even if he lacks the verbal facility to sting like a bee. He was lucky to draw the befuddled John McCain as his opponent in the 2008 presidential race. Rather than exposing Obama’s bloated ego to the ridicule that it so richly deserved, McCain decided to make nice — adding his voice to the hosanna chorus greeting the young Messiah. “And, finally, a word to Senator Obama and his supporters,” McCain said in his acceptance speech at the Republican National convention. “We’ll go at it over the next two months — you know the nature of this business — and there are big differences between us. But you have my respect and my admiration.”

At the convention McCain left it to his running mate to throw the only serious punches at his Democratic rival. Then, if not later, Sarah Palin rose to the challenge — providing the only moments worthy of inclusion in a highlight reel of great convention speeches.

She set up the first knock-down of the president-to-be with a self-deprecatory account of her own background:

A writer observed: “We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty, sincerity, and dignity.” I know just the kind of people that writer had in mind when he praised Harry Truman.
I grew up with those people.

They are the ones who do some of the hardest work in America… who grow our food, run our factories… and fight our wars.

They love their country, in good times and bad, and they’re always proud of America. I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town.

I was just your average hockey mom, and I signed up for the PTA because I want to make my kids’ public education better.

When I ran for city council, I didn’t need focus groups and voter profiles because I knew those voters, and knew their families, too.

Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown.

And since our opponents in this presidential race seem to look down upon that experience, let me explain what the job involves.

Then came a lightning combination of punches:

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a “community organizer,” except that you have actual responsibilities. I might add that in small towns, we don’t quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren’t listening.

We tend to prefer candidates who don’t talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.

Her second knockdown of the president-to-be was almost as good. This time she began with a backhanded compliment (“We’ve all hear his dramatic speeches before devoted followers. And there is much to like and admire about our opponent”) before getting down to the business of making fun of the mistaken ideas combined with the phony theatrics and stagecraft that went into the Obama acceptance speech at the Democratic convention a week earlier:

But listening to him speak, it’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform — not even in the state senate.

This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and never use the word “victory” except when he’s talking about his own campaign. But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed… when the roar of the crowd fades away… when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot — what exactly is our opponent’s plan? What does he actually seek to accomplish, after he’s done turning back the waters and healing our planet? The answer is to make government bigger… take more of your money… give you more orders from Washington… and to reduce the strength of America in a dangerous world.

What has the onetime community organizer learned since the last election — with nearly four years of on-the-training as president of the United States, which happens to be the first real executive position that he has held?

The policies are no different today than they were four years ago: he still wants to make government bigger… to take more of your money… to give more orders from Washington.

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Dear aunt going for everything!