…at least for some drugs… until some further notice…
I don’t know about you all, but my family has a close and enduring and trusting relationship with our pharmacist. It is akin even to the bond we have with our doctors, who likewise we have regular interaction.
Today, when dropping off a routine prescription, our local pharmacist hesitated, saying momentarily, that they may not be able to fill one of them, while internally determining firstly if they had enough left in stock, and secondly the amount of money they’d have to ‘eat’ in the transaction. You see, as yet another consequence of the so-called ‘law’ named Obamacare, the wholesale cost of a wide range of drugs has necessarily skyrocketed.
What this means to our pharmacist of course is that it costs them more to buy the drugs, and in this case, 400% more (in other cases a greater deal more). And since this drug costs them more, they must in turn charge us more for it.
Then here is the deal. Our insurance plan (and the plans of many others), for the time being, and until and if then, some undetermined time, will only reimburse our pharmacist for this drug at the rate they were paying prior to the insane overnight spike in the cost of this drug. As a result, our pharmacist can no longer afford to sell us this drug (taking a loss), and must send us packing, toward the closest big-chain drug store, who might better be able to afford to absorb the loss.
Frankly, I am incensed at this. We Americans were promised that we could keep our health plans, that we could keep our doctors, should the Affordable Care Act become law. For millions of us, and for millions more to come, the promises are proven nothing more than hollow, malicious, manipulative lies. And now, apparently, neither can we keep our pharmacists.
Now I’ve not done research whatever into this situation, having only spoken to our pharmacist, and then taken to my pen in protest, but aside from the obvious and blatant affront to our liberty by the federal government that this represents, this pharmaceutical gouge reeks of backroom deals between fat-assed lobbyist nobles and fat-assed power-hungry politicians. This is tyranny.
We know we are not going to keep our health plans, we know that our health costs are going to be more expensive (my premiums have risen 82% since the PPACA was passed), we know we are not going to keep our doctors, we know we are not going to keep our full-time jobs, and now, we can guess that we can’t keep our pharmacists, either.
We could also say we won’t get to keep our country, if we had not lost that a good time ago.
Elections have consequences, and thanks to you, my family and millions of other families are being harmed, millions more are set to see their harm, and ultimately, so too will you be harmed. And do not for a minute think that obamacare is the end of it.
I am still steamed over the AQIM (al Qaeda) (*& Ansar al-Sharia) terrorist attack (act of WAR) on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11th, 2012, and the deaths of four Americans, including our ambassador, and the Obama administration’s blatant lies and cover-up of what transpired there, and further how they could have prevented it from happening, and even further the lack of any response. How this blood letting is not of primary concern to the electorate is entirely beyond my understanding.
Thought I’d compile my various ventings on the subject here in one place, for whatever reason, adding a link or two. I have no illusion that someone might read all this, just doing because I feel like it.
Comments I’ve made on twitter are followed by an “@“ link if you’re so inclined.
At the end (*10.19 mark) you’ll find Bret Baier’s report on the timeline.
~~~01.10.13 Update
Why was the prefabricated “video motive”, which likely took hours to prepare, provided to the AP by the State Department, 15-30 minutes before the killing of Americans was even finished in Benghazi? And note that 2 hours in to the 7-hours siege, the White House was told it was a terrorist attack, not a protest.
**No need to beat ‘em, when you’ve already joined ‘em~> The Benghazi Slingshot by Cindy Simpson 11.21.12 #obama #sharia… but hey, free stuff. @
points from the article:
The Middle East is rapidly unifying behind sharia — sharia is totalitarian government wholesale opposed American freedom and liberty — current U.S. policy is making the world safe for (not from) sharia — Obama’s soft spot for sharia may have gotten our guys killed in Benghazi — the Obama Admin. has been engaging, legitimating, enriching, emboldening, and arming Islamists — “Uncle Sam has joined the jihad” — Obama in Cairo told the world it was his job as president to “fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.” — Obama recently told the U.N.: “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” — “A leader who will betray the First Amendment will betray anything.” — The left-wing mainstream media has always protected the underbelly of communism, now it’s protecting the underbelly of totalitarian sharia and its friend Barack Hussein Obama.
~~~*11.20.12 Update
*The only movement I know in these last ten days is that ex-CIA director Petraeus testified before Congress Friday (closed door), saying that the CIA issued a report after the 09.11 Benghazi attacks stating that, in fact, the attacks were at the hands of terrorists, not a mob pissed about a video. He also said that his report was edited by those higher up than him to remove references to terrorists.
This just confirms what we already knew. Obama LIED through his teeth from day one, Rice LIED, Carney LIED, and Obama and Hillary LIED to the face of family members, over the coffins of those killed, all just to protect O’s sorry ass in an election season.
Sadly, a part of me thinks that if this Obama had told the truth from the start, exposing his other LIE that he killed Al Qaeda, he might well have gotten re-elected anyway.
**CIA Director David Petraeus resigned Friday 11.09.12 (3 days after the Presidential election), citing an extramarital affair for the reason. The CIA annex in Benghazi was where former SEALs Ty Woods and Glen Doherty were killed by mortar fire from terrorists. It was reported 10.26 that the CIA chain of command denied these men military backup during the firefight, and earlier ordered Ty to “stand down” rather than defend the nearby U.S. Consulate that was under attack.
Petraeus denied this 10.26: “No one at any level in the CIA told anybody not to help those in need; claims to the contrary are simply inaccurate.”
Prior to this “resignation”, Petraeus was set to testify in Congressional hearings next week on the Benghazi matter.
The timing and reasoning here are absolutely and obviously suspect. That a man of such stature and respect ends his career this way, on the heels of the Benghazi scandal, waiting until after his boss Obama’s election to do so, but before he was set to testify, is simply unbelievable, and the truth is far afield of any affair.
Prior to heading the CIA, General Petreaus led the successful surge in the Iraq war, had a distinguished military career, and was considered a hero.
The Worst News from Benghazi -By James Lewis
Obama – Radical Socialist at home ~ Radical Islamist Sympathizer abroad @ **11.05.12
One of the places in Libya most awash with such weapons in the most dangerous of hands is Benghazi. It now appears that Stevens was there — on a particularly risky day, with no security to speak of and despite now copiously documented concerns about his own safety and that of his subordinates — for another priority mission: sending arms recovered from the former regime’s stocks to the “opposition” in Syria. As in Libya, the insurgents are known to include al Qaeda and other Shariah-supremacist groups, including none other than Abdelhakim Belhadj.
It remains to be seen, however, if Frankenstorm Sandy will do more than simply defer the day of reckoning for Mr. Obama. Whether it occurs on Nov. 6 or afterward, the rising popular revulsion at what happened in Libya on Sept. 11, 2012, and the Obama administration’s dissembling, deflections and outright lies in the weeks that followed should blow this presidency away.
[…]
What was important enough to prompt our top diplomat in Libya to make such a dangerous foray? It seems the ambassador felt compelled to meet with the Turkish consul general that evening for the purpose of damage-limitation following the compromise of the secret weapons pipeline Mr. Stevens was then running to Syria. By some accounts, the Russians, Iranians and others had discovered that he was covertly providing automatic weapons, rocket-propelled grenades and even shoulder-fired, man-portable anti-aircraft missiles to “the opposition” there, including known jihadists associated with the Muslim Brotherhood and al Qaeda.
The revelation that Mr. Obama was presiding over an operation involving gunrunning to our enemies — including weapons virtually certain to be turned against us, later if not sooner — could have been fatal to his re-election bid. Consider that a serious U.S. military response to the violence in Benghazi would provide ample evidence of the fatuousness and mendacity of the administration’s Arab Spring and “lead-from-behind” in Libya narratives. Toss in, too, Mr. Obama’s refusal to act to save American lives, and you have a perfect storm for a president.
In the crisis, Mr. Obama was evidently paralyzed — not decisive and certainly not courageous. Regrettably, the loss of four of our countrymen that fateful night and the cover-up that followed will come to be seen by history as simply the leitmotif (dominant recurring theme) of a commander in chief whose record is a virtually unmitigated disaster for the United States.
Please help me. I am trying as hard as I can to get out the word about cross-border authority (CBA).
I just can’t believe reporters don’t know enough to ask the right questions! It’s infuriating.
Libya, as far as standing down the rescue, is 100% Obama’s show, and nobody else’s.Only he can grant CBA, not Biden, not Panetta, not Dempsey, not Hillary, and certainly not Ham in Germany.
The entire episode is explained perfectly inside the context of not granting CBA. The CIA QRF in Tripoli? No problem, send them on the local Tripoli station chief’s say-so. He merely informs up COC that he has done so. CCs them so to speak. “This is what I am doing.” Ditto if Predators were in country, no problem using them.
But the big rescue air armada streaming toward Libya right away after the alarm got to Stuttgart and Africom? That has to stop. I believe at the 5pm meeting with Panetta and Biden in the Oval Office, he said, “No outside military intervention,” on the basis that the last report was the “lull” from the consulate, at about 1030 p.m. in Benghazi, when the attack appeared to be over and the situation stabilizing.
[…]
…“Hold in place, no rescue yet. We can’t find the President, it sounds like,” say the colonels to the majors and captains. 100s of military must know about this. I keep waiting for the conclusive whistle-blowers to come forward BEFORE the election. After won’t matter, it will be for the historians.
[…]
I can’t believe cross-border authority permission is not one of the top discussion points about Benghazi. That, and who “set him up” by sending him to Beghazi to meet the Turks on 9-11, with them leaving after dark.
And of course, down the road, was the military rescue-in-progress turned back because Obama actually wanted to make sure the consulate was wiped out? Is that why the spooks at the annex were refused permission to travel the under one mile to intervene? That would connect it all together, but for now, the best focus is on Obama either granting or withholding cross-border authority for the rescue.
1) “To whom did you issue this first directive and how was this directive communicated to the military and other agencies–verbally or in writing?“
2) “At any time on September 11, 2012, did you specifically direct the military to move available assets into Libya to ensure the safety of U.S. personnel in Benghazi? If so, which assets did you order to Libya?
3) “At any time on September 11, 2012, other than ISR assets, did you provide the authority for the military to take any and all necessary measures to secure U.S. personnel, including specifically the authority to enter Libyan airspace?
4) “Did you have any communication with the Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, or any Commanders of regional Combatant Commands regarding military support to U.S. personnel in Benghazi on September 11th? If so could you please describe any recommendations provided to you regarding available military support and any orders you gave them?”
If you know something about #Benghazi (facts only please, no theories) send in confidence to Benghazi@pjmedia.com. Thanks for passing on.
What time on 9.11 did U.S. Embassy in Cairo issue apology for the video? Found link (broken) at HotAir 5:12 PM. #Benghazi Attack 3:40 PM EST @ **10.29.12
If Obama had Acted to help in #Benghazi, his campaign & MSM could’ve spun & feigned his heroism. see OBL. #setup #calculated#sacrifice @ **10.29.12
Geraldo dude just questioned ‘could we REALLY have saved those people in #Benghazi?’ That’s not the point Ger’o! We REALLY should’ve TRIED! @ **10.28.12
Our Secretary of Defense says the basic principle is to “Fear the Unknown”. The SOLDIER knows it as “Never Leave a Man Behind”.#Benghazi@ **10.28.12
If ignorance & incompetence are to excuse the know-all, be-all, dear leader #obama, then the truth must be truly sinister. #benghazi #setup @ **10.28.12
This Geraldo dude, he’s got a Thing for Obama, huh? If #Benghazi was Bush, Ger’o wouldn’t be screaming political opportunism, huh? #hack@ **10.28.12
POS Rangel just said on Geraldo the GOP’s dancing on the graves of those killed in #Benghazi by ?ing dear leader, who LIED by their COFFINS. @ **10.28.12
…or maybe just get’n rid of Stevens, or setup for blind sheik (real protest) trade, and cover-up/video always part of it. @ **10.27.12
This is gonna sound CRAZY, but Why would our Enemies sabotage Obama’s election when it is him they prefer in power? #Benghazi#justaskin@ **10.27.12
~~~*10.27.12 Updates (point & below)
(note: reordered whole list of rants/links~most recent at top)
Let’s not forget #Obama thought he was our King long before#Benghazi. He was bad for the cause of #Liberty long before#Benghazi. @ 10.26.12
So, BEFORE the mortar team in #Benghazi killed our people, they COULD have easily been blown to hell. #obama said NO! Hail to the F’n King. @ 10.26.12
#BHO said today they’re still trying to figure out what happened in #Benghazi?! Here Barry: We were ATTACKED, & you didn’t do SH!T about it! @ *10.26.12
This#Obama is a pseudo President, who sees his power as a means to enhance IT, at ANY COST. #Benghazi is a Terrible reminder of this truth. @ *10.26.12
Want to know #Honor? Former Navy SEALs Ty Woods & Glen Doherty defied “Stand Down” order & Died helping our people in#Benghazi. #Honor! @ *10.26.12
Maybe we just weren’t ‘ALLOWED’ to protect our people in#Benghazi, OR defend them when attacked, OR avenge their deaths. @ *10.26.12
~~~*10.24.12 Updates (point & below)
Remember: 09-11-12 #Terror attack on #Benghazi consulate, 4 Amer. DEAD, #Obama knew, did nothing, campaigned in Vegas,#LIED to US for weeks @ *10.24.12
*ICYMI: FOUR Americans Dead 09/11/12 #Benghazi Libya Terror#Obama State Dept Embarrassing #FAIL ~ #LIES Cover-up #BlameUSA 1st Amd #VOTE@ 10.21.12 (icymi=in case you missed it)
*Can’t help but think that IF the Obama State Dept. had NOT PULLED SECURITY from the #Benghazi consulate, the attack may not have happened. @ 10.20.12
I agree completely with the sentiment. However, it’s my assertion that the real real Libya scandal is that an American citizen was singled out and scapegoated and now sits in jail — even though the federal government at its highest levels knew this man to be innocent of the charges they were leveling against him not just for national consumption but for international consumption, running ads in Pakistan apologizing for our First Amendment, not responding to a bounty put on the filmmaker’s head by a Pakistan government official, sending out conciliatory Tweets from embassy staff later defended by the Secretary of State — who herself stood over the coffins of those who’d asked for added security, which she and the Administration had denied, and laid the blame for what was,graphically and utterly, a colossal performative repudiation of the entire foreign policy strategy of this dismal Administration, at the feet of a Youtube video clip and the American who, in producing it, had violated sharia blasphemy laws and was subsequently targeted for death by those we can’t call terrorists. For fear of riling them up.
It is, in a word, staggering. And in fact, if we knew where this amateur filmmaker was being held, and had we any sense of decency, we’d be protesting outside the facility demanding his release (forget the bullshit about probation violations), if not overrunning the public spaces inside the facility and staging a sit in of sorts. You like Kent State, progressives? […]
We are well past the point of no return. The contemporary left is not the opposition party in a constitutional republic. It is an organized group of well-funded transnational progressivists waging a coup.
…now i know i’m a pest…
Revealed: Extreme Negligence in Benghazi 10.11.12 h/t @VistaJake State Dept. denies security pleas in Libya, prior to 9-11 attack: “there would be too much political cost.” & “You’ve got to do with less.” @ 10.11.12
I was gonna say obama’s at war with everybody but the enemy and his voters, only he’s his voters’ foe too. They just dont know it yet. @ 09.14.12
~~~I posted this here on 09.14: Sad First Response: Fealty to the Enemy, Fail Your Own Excerpts: “Sadness is how some react to Islamic barbarians attacking OUR embassies and brutally murdering OUR American citizens. The Muslim reasoning is a pretended outrage over a YouTube video, but in reality it was simply the 11th anniversary of Islamic barbarians murdering thousands of other Americans. Then, on the heels of OUR American government apologizing and appeasing once again for the fallacy of OUR being the cause of their barbarity, and as is characteristic of OUR America-hating left-wing Americans, and those America-hating “Allies”, we have this:” (calls for censorship) […] “Third world garbage punches us in the face, and “our” people want to punch “us” in the face.” […] “Selective liberty is tyranny. Their suggestion reeks of bullsh!t.” […] “Apart from the obvious WEAKNESS that pat leftist thinking might illustrate, it can otherwise be no more than another example of “not letting a crisis go to waste” as a valuable tool in the “fundamental transformation” of the U.S.A. by scheming, conniving, radical world-power statists.” […] “Beware, my countrymen! Know your God, know your Constitution, keep your family.” “Feigned motives are a cover and a distraction. This is what they are after; it is always what they are after:” (the Supremacy of the Constitution) […] “Oh… Hello world, we are the United States of America, and if you be inclined to malice, don’t be misled to encouragement by the elitist utopians and the temporary power among us who would join with you and shelter you. The true power in America has always been, will ever be, the great body of her people, most of whom bear no likeness to the aforementioned… and we are pissed.” ~~~
In response to this charade:15 Photos Of Libyans Apologizing To Americans Dubious: all people wearing shiny new clothes-shoes? trading signs? some women not wearing burkas (organizers?) @ 09.12.12 My Composite Image~>
Diplomacy has no place before Justice; barbarians have no place among men. @ 09.12.12
Time to STOP glorifying Marxist Philosophy! progressives. “Murder by Communism” 1900-87, 110 Million DEAD@ 09.22.12 Ref: Link to 1993 study By R.J. Rummel HOW MANY DID COMMUNIST REGIMES MURDER?
My annotated version of Table 1, found at above link.
Anybody who is still ‘undecided’ in the 2011 election for Prez SHOULD NOT VOTE… @ 09.22.12 I mean, you’re EITHER a socialist hack, Obama faction shill, & usable drone… OR… you’re an American Patriot! What’s to DECIDE? @ 09.22.12
2011 Charitable giving: The Romneys gave $4 Million, 30% of income. The Obamas gave $162K, 22%. ~Generosity of the EVIL RICH… @ 09.22.12
Read~>The Worldwide Consequences of Obama’s Manufactured Crisis Strategy by James Simpson 09.20.12 “At its core, socialism can only be parasitic.” “At this point, even the parasites will be in danger. The socialists’ internationalist agenda truly is a Conspiracy of the Lemmings. It is not merely a criminal conspiracy; it is criminally insane.” “Despite their high-minded rhetoric about saving the poor and oppressed, communists and socialists are what I call entrepreneurial parasites.”
The line in the sand never moves, but it is people who will approach, retreat from, or cross it; lest they deny it and await the tide.@ 09.19.12
A vote is but a means, to a means, to an end. The end is nothing less than the refuge for Liberty. @ 09.19.12
QE3 = Lower $ value = Higher Cost of Commodities = Higher Costs to Biz & Consumers(you) = Egan-Jones US Credit Rating CUT… AGAIN@ 09.15.12 Oppression of our standard of living is Tyranny to our standard of Liberty! @
I was gonna say obama’s at war with everybody but the enemy and his voters, only he’s his voters’ foe too. They just dont know it yet.@ 09.14.12
Diplomacy has no place before Justice; barbarians have no place among men. @ 09.12.12
“there will be no less reason to fear that the pestilential breath of faction may poison the fountains of justice.” Hamilton, fed.81,par.6 @ 09.12.12
~this warning was in regard to the idea that scotus should be part of the legislature, but we all know how it generally applies today. words
Note: The preceding random musings are mine, except as quoted/linked. ~tdv (@subconch) The @ symbols take you to the specific quotes on twitter if you care to RT, Favorite, or Reply.
When Government is the Only Answer, Liberty is Always in Question. @ 07.07.12
A tyrant with the best intentions is still an ef’n Tyrant! @ 07.07.12
dichotomy: CotUS’ aim to “secure the Blessings of Liberty” & Congress’ unbound power to usurp the blessings. @ 07.07.12 “we will be subject to a government unlimited in its power to extort our obedience to its will in every detail of life” ~Alan Keyes 07.05.12 @ Ref: From Preserving Liberty to Destroying It by Alan Keyes 07.05.12 on “Roberts Court’s despotic repurposing of taxation”
Fun with HashTags
Obama’s #BettingOnAmerica to ante up another generation. @ 07.05.12
Note: The preceding random musings are mine, except as quoted/linked. ~tdv (@subconch) The @ symbols take you to the specific quotes on twitter if you care to RT, Favorite, or Reply.
“Everybody’s a Writer… not even me.” ~tdv (@subconch)
“All creations, of mind, by soul, of heart, by hand, are for malicious destructive, for watchful sanctuary, for wise utility.” ~tdv (@subconch)
“If you awoke, and no time elapsed, would you have ever slept?” ~tdv (@subconch)
“Suffrage of conscience, indeed of confidence, assumes and requires comprehension of both.” ~tdv (@subconch)
“With every new person I follow (on twitter), I am assured that America is not dead.” ~tdv (@subconch)
So the same ilk, interpreters by invented intent, also invent intentions open to interpretation? Or are these interpretables an intended diversion from the invented intent? ~tdv (comment at proteinwisdom.com) RE: Originalism and Law
“The destiny of the archaic knows its own will, and the novelty o’ America thru holds still.” ~tdv (@subconch)
“It is only the was or weren’t till it is or aint, when it is was again or never been.” ~tdv (@subconch)
“What the gov’t sells us is never what we bought.” ~tdv (@subconch)
“Shhh! Don’t tell the left, but I know the secret to their success in Nov.2012…”ShutUp and Stop Doing Stuff”… it’s a no-brainer…” ~tdv (@subconch)
“IF truth be relative, THEN choose your family wisely, ELSE orphan yourself without.” ~tdv (@subconch)
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