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Obamacare: Guess We Can’t Keep Our Pharmacist, Either

23 Saturday Nov 2013

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…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.

~tdv, pissed

Punish the Farmers!

14 Friday Dec 2012

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What say we arbitrarily single out farmers for punishment?

You know, like we do with numerous and various other producers of stuff.  I mean, they can afford it, like those rich evil bastards that make medical products that doctors and nurses use to make people healthy. Bastards!

They need punished, I say, with a special tax that nobody else has to pay! Them farmers… producing food… man! They’re not really people, anyhow.

And while we’re at it, we’ll be punishing the people that work for the farmers, and their families; the people who buy and eat the food, and their families; the people who make a living making stuff that the farmers use to farm, and their families; we’ll punish them all, but we’ll just talk about punishing the farmers, ‘cause we have got to keep up appearances, you see.

Consequences are not really consequences, so it’s all okay, because the fines we took to penalize the farmers for being farmers, we will just give some of that money to the invisible peripheral people we punished, and we’ll say “We’re here to help”, and “Look what those farmers did to you”, and “We’ve made food cheaper for everyone and available to everyone”. Nobody will be the wiser, least of all the people who hire us to do the stuff we feel like doing, like the people we just peripherally punished.

We won’t either talk about how the farmers, in this country at least, will have less money to invest in figuring out ways to grow and harvest food at lesser expense to the people who eat, since we and some of the farmers’ victims will have that money.

It is settled. It is done. We have made up our collective minds. You just witnessed the greatness of our reason.

This is a fine idea, because we say it is, and because our friends on TV say it is, too. Justice is what we say it is, and you will see in the end, that it’s best when we single people out for random punishment. You’ll see, we promise.

Oh, and the motion picture industry, people who make forks, the rap music industry, people who make toilet paper, and those rich evil bastards that make products for pets, all of these need punished, too. You’ll see, I promise. Justice!

~betters.gov

P.S. If you are one of the bastards herein mentioned, please quietly consider our subjective reprisals upon your existence as merely another cost of doing business, and accept with heartfelt gratitude that we benevolently permit you to be. (smiley face)

Blind Siege, Bearing Weight, Random Slab Cracks, No

06 Thursday Dec 2012

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$16.3TTT Debt… $52k for every Man, Woman, and Democrat! That’s $208,000 for my double-wide-full… and nobody here even got a phone. @ 12.01.12

HHS dictatorial regime to PUNISH the people of non-exchange States. #obamacare #arbitrary #power @ 12.01.12 h/t Bluegrass Pundit

On a happy note, someone learned today that all govt $$$ comes from people, & “free” stuff is actually taken from some person who earned it. @ 12.01.12

We have laid blind siege on our invisible selves, and upon the carcass of freedom’s memory, this shall be laid bare. @ 12.01.12

The Constitution is the foundation on which a House of Laws is built, but beneath a Tower of Decrees it is crushed, and buried to obscurity. @ 12.01.12

That THIS is EVEN a TOPIC of DISCUSSION tells you EVERYTHING you NEED to KNOW!!!~> Govt after 401(k)s? @ 11.30.12

Elite GOP “Pallbearers of Liberty”, extinction of principled conservatism, extinction of the American republic. ~Alan Keyes @ 11.30.12

Walter E Williams’ affirmation that the States have EVERY right to say NO! In this case, with respect to obamacare. (tweeted here @ 11.30)
~Also see my article: Once we were States. Once we would say “NO”

Wonder if the GOP Platform was just paper, like the therein-referenced 60+ times U.S. Constitution, was just paper? @ 11.30.12

What about that CLIFF that obama pushed those 4 Americans over in #Benghazi!? @ 11.30.12

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Randoms: All It Takes is All It’ll Take, “Twas a Free Country”

01 Saturday Dec 2012

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To be savior, you create factions, inciting them against slandered innocents, all for power, greed, and revenge. Not who, but what are you? @ 11.30.12

art.I,§.7,c.1: “All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives…” so… originate already. #gop @ 11.29.12

The phrase “It’s a free country” didn’t die off because it became cliche. It died as it no longer applied, as freedom had been traded in. @ 11.29.12

That our standard of living so regularly & increasingly hangs by a thread dangled by a govt with no such vested power, just pisses me off! @ 11.29.12

Perspective … and an evolved point of view on the greater gamble @ 11.29.12

All it takes is money that you didn’t earn, taken from someone you don’t know, with consequences you don’t care about. That’s all it takes. @ 11.28.12

The problem isn’t him, so much, as it is all those people who think they’re supposed to like him so much. @ 11.28.12

If you CANNOT question the authority of your government, you are enslaved. If you WILL NOT question it, you are a fool! ~tdv #liberty @ 11.28.12

Over/above the $16T debt, Think $87T in promises we can’t pay for, $7T accrued last year! http://market-ticker.org/post=214320  ~h/t @AnnBarnhardt ~@ 11.27.12

Is obama as outraged about this as he was about the ‘video’? Or would he say the “future must belong” to the artist. @ 11.27.12

Raising taxes on the ‘wealthy’ serves ONLY ONE purpose: Divide and demoralize the conservative electorate! @ 11.27.12
Related: Congressman: Obama’s tax increases fund government for eight days 11.28.12

Yep, America’s become a freaking TV show, and the only people left with any sense don’t have a set. @ 11.26.12

Imagine the day when Congress will meet, and adjourn, admitting of nothing to do, and having done nothing. @ 11.26.12

We didn’t hire Republicans to bend over. We hired them to stand up. @ 11.26.12

Lawless to tell doctor what’s ailing you during obamacare “free” annual exam, but he’s mandated to tell YOU about seat belts @ 11.26.12

Wow. Read.~> The Parchment-Thin Veil of Civility By Glenn Fairman 11.26.12
“a savage living under my skin”… @ 

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Randoms: It’s Rational, just because

26 Monday Nov 2012

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Wonder if it’s ever too late to learn what needs to be taught before it’s too late? @ 11.25.12

So Pravda says we’re illiterate, the “United Socialist States of America”… I get it, but since when do we care what they say, generally? @ 11.25.12

constitution: n. 6. A system of fundamental principles for the government of Rational and social Beings. ~So THAT’s why the left hates it. @ 11.24.12

Take a number, take a pill, we’ve votes to buy, and just because. ~the central govt. #obamacare @ 11.24.12

Isn’t it so, that the enemies of liberty would wish, precisely, that free men presume themselves defenseless against any trespass? @ 11.23.12

If you cannot love your country, if you cannot love your God, then what can you love? @ 11.23.12

Thanksgiving Day reminded me that Democrats actually have the capacity to be… LIKABLE… :] @ 11.23.12

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Randoms: The Consequence of Bliss, A Sock, and Recycled Genius

21 Wednesday Nov 2012

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Can’t say what I’m REALLY thinking, except parchment, a sock, flies, sweat o’sloth, glass, laurel, a book, a son, and an empty box. @ 11.21.12

Paraphrasing Krauthammer on O’Reilly: It’s over, till it’s over, that’s when it can be fixed. @ 11.20.12

Chipping away at the problem is contingent on a measure of time, but a progressive century has unfortunately proven the method. @ 11.20.12

I’m not prepared to give up, but it’s best I prepare for the damage done by those who did. ~what a waste @ 11.20.12

I think obama’s re-coronation drills down to two things, ultimately: fear and fraud. Apply either, or both, to whatever. @ 11.19.12

Interesting, little states can buck the omnipotent fed. govt when it comes to smokin’ dope, but obamacare… that’s a done deal? #nullify @ 11.19.12

What better way to destroy “the genius of republican liberty”(fed.no.37) than to destroy the genius of the people whose liberty makes it up? @ 11.18.12

There is a difference between Barack Hussein Obama and the President of the United States. @ 11.18.12

I hate the word “activist”, as it conjures the radical & destructive stereotype. But this doesn’t mean I am prohibited from being “active”. @ 11.18.12

If the simple truth doesn’t work, then the simple truth cannot work, and the problem lies not with your powers of persuasion. #politics @ 11.17.12

WHO is it that Calculates whether vote fraud is WORTH prosecution? I mean, election outcome notwithstanding, Punish these bastards! #justice @ 11.17.12

If we’re going to need two Part-Time jobs to survive, due to obamacare, isn’t that gonna double commuter vehicle emissions? progressives? algore? @ 11.17.12

Rather than raise prices, biz’s to add an obamacare surcharge to the bill/receipt! Let people SEE the COST! Excellent! @ 11.17.12

“Government is only another word for POLITICAL POWER AND SUPREMACY” (emphasis Hamilton’s). Why would you CEDE more than agreed? ~No.33,p.07 @ 11.17.12
SUPREMACY only means ‘highest in authority’; there is no highest in humanity or virtue, and only One Supreme Judge. @ 11.17.12

Even IF the Left COULD create ‘paradise’ on earth, I’d rather not live in it. @ 11.17.12

The last thing I remember didn’t happen… yet? @ 11.16.12

Jase:”Ya want somethin done, ya do it yourself” Si:”That’s what started this company” Jase:”That’s what started this COUNTRY”#duckdynasty @ 11.16.12

I’ve not seen or heard or read ANY news today. Ignorance truly IS bliss… I don’t think I like bliss… gonna check on @seanhannity @ 11.15.12

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Randoms: Anything for Power, Anything but Truth, Parasitic Paralyzation

07 Sunday Oct 2012

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Look for a valiant & miraculous act of justice being wrought in the middle east by the great hand of leader 0bama prior to election. ~tdv @ 10.01.12

Blame the Troops~> “Gosh darn, not only is free speech to blame for Muslim riots and murder, but it’s the US soldiers’ fault for getting shot in the back by Afghan troops because …” ~Darleen Click 10.01.12

Read~> Barack Obama’s Terrorist Attack Cover-Up by Sara Goss 09.29.12
Timeline of Benghazi, Libya 09.11.12 Terror, failure of obama admin. and the “movie” fraud

Look~> Pat Caddell at AIM 09.27.12: “Press a fundamental threat to democracy, enemy of the American people” VID & Transcript
h/t JHoward post~ Your Press at proteinwisdom.com

Transform~> The World Doesn’t Love the First Amendment, Slate, 09.25.12
So America’s now “paralyzed by constitutional symbolism” (free speech), and the left don’t like the 1st Amd. anymore. Got it. @ 09.28.12
…the whole of the CotUS is a toy of relativism to these people @
It’s cliche by now, but you don’t fundamentally transform (destroying original) that which you Love. @ 

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The Democrat Party is nothing but a Faction Factory, manufacturing and assembly of the group Thieves of Liberty. @ 09.30.12

If the current recipients of wealth redistribution HAD ALL the wealth, would there THEN be the same zeal to redistribute wealth? @ 09.30.12

My FAMILY health ins. prem. 2012/13: 29.7K/yr! 9.2% INCREASE over last year. 44.4% HIKE since obamacare. Affordable Care my AZZ! @ 09.29.12
…ObamaCare is a lie.

‘Progressive Insurance’… Isn’t this a contradiction in terms? And the name, & the ‘Snapshot’ big bro spy gadget give me the CREEPS! @ 09.29.12

Neal Cavuto, -Common Sense- monologue, FoxNews 09.28.12:
“For a brief moment this morning, Chinese currency traded at highest level against the dollar…ever. The U.S. has been traded. The world is increasingly cashing OUT of us, and cashing IN on China. When you pile up debt, you pile up folks who just think you’re a joke. They no longer think you’re a BUY, they think you’re a SELL. Think of that.”
By the way, interest on federal debt is our 5th largest budget item, costing us $222.5 Billion this year. usdebtclock.org/  @ 09.28.12 ~16 TRILLION & counting

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Who Needs Religious Liberty Anyhow?

01 Wednesday Aug 2012

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It’s not just Religious Liberty that is being beaten down by the kings today, it is All Liberty. @

Ref: Obamacare’s Anti-Religious Freedom Mandate Starts TODAY
~by Amy Payne and Sarah Torre 08.01.2012

By Rule, this day, against their conscience, many employers of faith must pay for abortion-inducing drugs, contraception, and sterilization. @

So let it be done, by decree of the crown; Take from thy substance, and provide for thy abhorrents. @

Take head, subjects, for on the morrow thy God wilt bow before Me, and ye shall forget the trespasses of this day.

 ~Barack the Conqueror @

What’s next for those of faith in amerika? Covetousness by command? Porno by proclamation? Incest by edict? Idolatry by decree? @

First Amendment:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

…but who really cares about the Constitution any more?… or liberty… anyhow. @

Related:

    • In January 2009, Obama issued an executive order to allow taxpayer dollars to go to non-governmental organizations that perform abortions abroad.
    • In February 2009, Obama announced he intended to eliminate conscience protections for pro-life nurses and doctors working at federally funded hospitals.
    • In April 2009, Obama delivered a speech at Georgetown University – and curiously requested that the school conceal a monogram symbolizing the name of Jesus Christ.
    • In May 2009, Obama eliminated all funding for abstinence-only sex education.
    • That same month, Obama nominated Kevin Jennings to head up the Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools. At least 53 members of Congress called on Obama to fire the so-called “Safe Schools Czar” after it came out that he had once offered glib counsel to a student who reported to him having had sex with an adult. “I hope you used a condom,” Jennings reportedly said, completely ignoring the sexual abuse of the child. Here’s another winning quote from the man charged with keeping public schools safe: “We have to quit being afraid of the religious right. … I’m trying not to say, [F—] ’em!’ which is what I want to say because I don’t care what they think! Drop dead!”
    • By October 2010, reporters had begun to notice that Obama cut the phrase “their Creator” when he quoted the opening paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence.
    • In September 2011, the Army revised guidelines for Walter Reed Medical Center to read: “No religious items (i.e. Bibles, reading materials and/or facts) are allowed to be given away or used during a visit.” This policy stirred such outrage on the floor of Congress that the hospital ultimately rescinded it.

Randoms: Provoking the Power Nap, Listening, Gifts O’Plenty

17 Tuesday Jul 2012

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Read~> Obama: “Outsourcing is unpatriotic, except … [Darleen Click]
~Also see: U.S. Constitution: Article I, Sect. 9, Clause 8?…(pictured)

Blue Shield, late ’30s, devised by dr’s worried that soc.sec. would lead to compulsory heavily regulated health ins.; harm dr./pat.bond? hmm @ 07.16.12
Ref: In Sickness and in Health: The History of Health Insurance

Power is intolerant of independence, but liberty’s will is supreme in its impatience with power. @ 07.15.12

My new health insurance premium is in: 29.7K/yr! 9.2% INCREASE over last year. 44.4% HIKE since obamacare passed. Affordable Care Act my AZZ! @ 07.15.12

Fun with HashTags
It is ‪#impossibletoknow‬ what reprisals are waiting for we who restore our liberty. @ 07.15.12
It’s ‪#ImpossibleToKnow‬ how many little obamas are out there being groomed to lead the final fundamental transformation. @ 07.15.12
‪#WhatObamaTaughtMe‬ is that liberty can be easily swayed to bind itself. @ 07.15.12

Read~> Libs Say the Darndest Things by James Lewis, 07.13.12
Be sure to check out the comments.

If you don’t understand the proper role of the state, then you don’t understand the proper state of liberty. @ 07.14.12

Contemporary Relevance:
Federalist No.1, Para. 3, Hamilton (emphasis mine @)
“Among the most formidable of the obstacles which the new Constitution will have to encounter may readily be distinguished the obvious interest of a certain class of men in every State to resist all changes which may hazard a diminution of the power, emolument, and consequence of the offices they hold under the State establishments; and the perverted ambition of another class of men, who will either hope to aggrandize themselves by the confusions of their country, or will flatter themselves with fairer prospects of elevation from the subdivision of the empire into several partial confederacies than from its union under one government.”

Time for the government to take a power nap. @ 07.14.12

Today is the last Friday the 13th till Sept. 13, 2013, which is 427 days away, & the sum of them digits is… 13! It’s OVER!! :] @ 07.13.12

Figure she’ll start listen’n right after she’s no longer required to… @ 07.13.12

Tho it’s thinkable that the powerful are inciting the wrath of the people, so they can quell it for more power, it may be they do it for fun @ 07.12.12

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Randoms: All the World’s a Cage, Too Big to Jail, Empirical CotUS

14 Saturday Jul 2012

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King George the relatively trivial usurper…
Seriously! Read ~> July 4th Musings by Karl Denninger, h/t & thx @AnnBarnhardt

I forget, is it “too big to fail”, or is it “too big to jail”… or are these mutually inclusive? @ 07.12.12

Either I don’t know what I’m talking about, or nobody understands what I’m talking about, or both, or neither. Doesn’t matter, does it? @ 07.12.12

Read~> “20 Republicans set to uphold controversial UN treaty” 07.10.12
& Law of the Sea Treaty: Bad for American Energy Policy 07.09.12
& U.N. Agreement Should Have All Gun Owners Up In Arms 06.07.11
International Gun Registry!?!? Are they kidding?! 

If “science” can burn us on global warming, what else are they cooking up? @ 07.10.12

I don’t have to like the President. I just want him to do his ef’n job… so I don’t have to hate him. @ 07.10.12

Read~> Is President Obama Intentionally ‘Destroying’ America? by David Limbaugh 07.10.12 @

No recession tax hike, Yes election tax hike, whichever comes first… for me(bho). ‪#Obamageddon‬ ‪#ClassFare‬ ‪#Tyranny‬ @ 07.10.12
Related: Obama’s Tax Hike on Job Creators by Amy Payne 07.10.12

Read~> Atlas Still Shrugging… By Victor Davis Hanson 07.06.12 @

Have you taken your dictation today? serf! @ 07.09.12

Every debate with a liberal starts with the assumption that central govt authority is the norm, then they demand you prove THEM wrong. @
It’s like the left says “I can enter your house whenever I want”, then the argument is about which door to leave unlocked. @
Constitutional, limited govt & individual liberty in ALL forums is the true default. Let the liberals prove IT wrong. @
We already have the formula, declared and constituted, innocent until proven guilty. @
~series tweeted 07.09.12

Read~> ObamaCare Is Shovel-Ready for You by Stella Paul 07.09.12 @

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