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Married people stupid and backwards
Catherine Deveny unleashes a torrent of anti-marriage arguments on Fairfax Digital today.
I AM against gay marriage. I'm against straight marriage. I'm against marriage full stop. Why are we hanging on to this relic of an anachronistic system (which still reeks of misogyny and bigotry),
Ms Deveny seems to be arguing that women who choose to marry are somehow being duped into a life of servitude and an early death.
Weddings and marriage are spin-doctoring propaganda to maintain social order. Which is code for "making sure the blokes are running the joint while women are oppressed and conned into doing the majority of the unpaid domestic and emotional heavy lifting" (and a hefty whack of the income earning as well). Married men live longer than single ones. Unmarried women live longer than wives. Girls, read the fine print and ask yourself: "What's in it for me?"
And just in case you thought that there may be some arguments to be made for marriage, Deveny dismisses them thus.
I don't judge you if you have an ownership ceremony. I do laugh at you behind your back when you defend it with hilarious and irrational rhetoric.
Seeing as Ms Deveny declared that she isn't, never was, never will be married, I'm not quite sure why she feels so outraged by the choices of others. Her arguments against marriage are selective in their treatment of statistics and put up some very lame straw men for her to knock down.
Although marriage is an old institution there's no reason to accept that a modern marriage must be defined by all of the traditions that have come before, however there's also no reason to accept that people can't be happy in one that is.
Disclosure: I recently celebrated my 10th wedding anniversary, and so did my wife.
Disclosure: I recently celebrated my 10th wedding anniversary, and so did my wife.
That sentence leaves quite a lot of room for conjecture, Dave. : ) -
…women who choose to marry are somehow being duped into a life of servitude and an early death.
Well, yeah. What's her problem?
Should I have added a Boom-Tish to the end monkeywrench?
Tomorrow I celebrate my 10th year of stupidness and backwardness. I will wear a tin hat in honour of Catherine.
As usual, in Deveney's quest to be controversial/entertaining/the Andrew Bolt of the left, she makes a reasonable point in a completely unreasonable way. I entirely agree that marriage is an anachronistic institution, and as an institution tends towards entrenching certain gender roles and male dominance (which is not to say that these things occur in every marriage, because obviously they don't).
I think it's unfortunate that the only formal recognition of a committed relationship we have is through an institution with, let's face it, an awful lot of baggage. Unlike Catherine, I completely understand why people get married and have nothing but support (not to mention admiration) to offer. But I also understand her reservations, and wish that there was some alternative.
My wife tells me I'm very happily married — who am I to argue….
I'm sure – (I hope) – it will come as quite a surprise to my wife that I've been oppressing her for the last 17 years.
If I was feeling uncharitable I'd say perhaps Catherine's objection to marriage stems from the fact that no-one has asked her.
Isn't Deveny in a longterm relationship that has produced children? There are plenty of reasons why someone might not want to be married – speculating as to why is just that: speculation.
Interestingly her wiki page cites PP as a reference for this sentence:
Rumors of a mental illness were created by insecure men not able to cope with a woman who has an opinion, a sense of humor and is doesn't spend her life googling people.
Girls, read the fine print and ask yourself: "What's in it for me?"
Well they get to play dressup with their friends and husbands for a day and get some treasured photos for the rest of their lives. They also get treated differently by society (yes prejudice exists in real life!). And finally they and their partners get to declare their love and respect of each other in front of their closest friends and relatives.
Its a memory I cherish and I expect Ms Deveny probably is only spouting sour grapes because no one was foolish enough to go through one with her.
Oh and as a bonus Ms Deveny you get a slightly lower lifespan which for you should mean less time to be lonely and bitter, so please don't ever contemplate it. -
Should I have added a Boom-Tish to the end monkeywrench? Please, spare my sides.
While I love to see Caz D or anyone else take down people or institutions that desperately deserve it, I really don't think this is it. As for 'selective treatment' of statistics, how about just plain false ones? Divorce rates climbing toward 50 per cent, my foot: just a couple of weeks ago the ABS confirmed divorce rates are still on the decline, as they have been most of the past decade.
And the marriage rate per capita is steady too, so it's not as though being married is going out of fashion.
What you do see is an increasing majority of marriages being conducted in a civil rather than a religious context – implying that people seem to want to free the institution from its religious baggage. So Caz can rest easy on that one. I don't think she's bitter and twisted, like TimF I think she just doesn't see the point in it. But I'd like to think the institution is evolving with the times.
(Disclaimer: My wife was married to the same person for 15 years and still is.)
As long as the govt dictates who one can or can't marry then I don't give a toss about the institution of marriage, it's an anachronism.
Now, I'm married, my wife and have discussed it and we both reckon that the bit of paper is just that, we are committed to each other and we don't need anybody else's recognition. Until it's up to consenting adults exactly who they marry (someone of the same gender or a relative????) I will feel this way about 'marriage'
We know when it's our wedding anniversary – My mum sends us a card
(Why did I get married then? good question, one I can't be bothered answering right now, but the reasons are good enough)
Catherine obviously didn't get an invite to someone's wedding.
This discussion is way too upside down for me.
I thought it was the peace and brown rice mob that ditched the idea of marriage for living together and the conservative church-goers who looked at them with lowered bifocals and raised eyebrows.
(My own disclosure – twenty years in November. And I've already chosen the ridiculously expensive piece of jewellry that comes with it.)
Apart from upsetting those married people who seem to be happy with their lot, where has Catherine's erred in her peice? Is she factualy wrong in some way? She is simply saying Marriage is an antiquated concept, and more importantly she is pointing out that she and others should not be classified by her marital state, surely she is correct in suggesting that it is no one else's business whether she is married, in a relationship or not.
This piece seems to me to be antidote to the piece talked about yesterday http://blogs.crikey.com.au/purepoison/2009/09/15/compared-contrasted-consumed/And yes I am married, and happy but if we weren't married we would be just as happy. Here's a test, find a word to introduce your wife, with out using the word wife, and see how you go.
Deveny's first argument is that the divorce rate is proof that marriage doesn't work. She overstates the divorce rate, makes no mention of the fact that the divorce rate for first time marriages is much lower than the overall rate and ignores the recent stats which show the divorce rate has been dropping for close to a decade.
She then goes on to dismiss there being any reason for marriage beyond the four flimsy examples that she puts up as straw men.
Here's a test, find a word to introduce your wife, with out using the word wife, and see how you go.
I'm assuming she has a name? You could always use that. Unless of course you married a female version of the The Artist Formely Known as Prince.
While there are some problems with this, I think some of it contains valid points. (Of course, SOME valid points in amongst some other poorly expressed things does not a good article make…)
I think it's a common thing to get all outraged and say 'but she consented to it!', which ignores the deeper problems of a culture that is still sexist and a state that enforces heteronormative monogamous relationships with legal and financial incentives… it is perfectly valid to criticise the culture that leads to someone making the choice to get married… and fine to be outraged that others are lead to make this choice.For the record, I support gay marriage now but hope that marriage will fade entirely when it's ready.
What happens when Cath's on holiday? A week of comfy anodyne opinions? All this burgherschrecken must be tiring…having to fire off a Bolt from the red every day…
So married people are backwards – that would be era elpoep deirram wouldn't it?
Perhaps the recognition of same sex marriage would help put an end to the claims of misogyny and bigotry? We can only hope.
That's her job and her right, that is to put up an argument, a discussion point, to simply accept that marriage as it is and not question it is conservative thinking surely? As to the reasons for getting married that she uses, in my experience she's pretty much on the money.
And you haven't managed to shoot down her assertion that she shouldn't be classified by her relationship or lack there of. And while I am at it what about her point regarding the change of name at marriage?
Many of the things Catherine wrote of are traditions based on the notion of marriage as a property transaction with the woman being part of the property, and in the 21st century many of these traditions and conventions do need to be question. -
My question is more as to how you describe your relationship with her. -
Just as with most of CD's column's – its all about her. Bottom line, no one forces you to get married. And those who choose to get married make it of their own free will (or they should – some cultures still have that arranged crap).
CD routinely likes taking a massive steaming turd on anything that riles her on a particular day. That's why I consider her a "lifestyle" or "gossip" columnist rather than a serious commentator.
Been married for 10 years and we still have heated debates about issues – the one with the logical argument wins (and if my wife loses – she uses emotional blackmail tactics!!!!!)
surleysimon, I agree that Deveny raises some valid questions, but by indulging in hyperbole and using lame straw men this becomes more of a rant than a serious argument.
As to introducing my wife, it depends on how happy I was with her. If things are good I'd say she was Buster Boy's (5yo) mother, otherwise I'd introduce her as The Troll Princess's (3yo) mother.
"women who choose to marry are somehow being duped into a life of servitude and an early death."
As a bloke wot who next year is staring down a celebration of a 40th wedding anniversary I'd like to say "fcuk off", Catherine Deveny.
Me and her have had rip roaring arguments about all things relevant and irrelevant. (And in situations where we both know how silly each of us are being.)
Me and 'her indoors, who must be obeyed' look forward to "a life of servitude and an early death" wot has apparently escaped us over the past four decades
… and do I suspect that Catherine was faced with one of those days where she had to fill up a column when she had no idea what to write about … and then proceeded to do exactly that?
I hope your jewellery is platinum. Or you could be traditional and give crockery.
These sort of articles are just internet hit drivers (I mean seriously look at the headline – that's just designed to get married people to click on her article to giver her a piece of their mind). She's already garnered over 140 comments for the article which judging by the number of comments on a quick perusal of other articles may well be the current National Times record.
If I was employed as a commentator I too would write crazy stuff to garner hits. Much easier to justify your paycheck to your employer when you can point at the amount of traffic your crazy articles are producing.
I agree with everything Deveney said in this article. I have been with my partner for over 7 years and I love her too much to ask her to marry me.
I think people saying she wrote this because she's never been proposed to/married should maybe try not to be so petty just because they disagree.
Josh, just proves what a rag the National Times is going to be. This story which is much more important has just three comments:
Agree with Daphon @ 30. For all David Marr's towering rhetoric about reviving a respected masthead, sadly the offerings are just news ltd lite.
Josh @ 28.
So spot on it's painful.
Oh and as another disclaimer. Whilst I've fessed up to being a near 40 y.o. married old fart, I have a daughter who has chosen not to 'marry'.
15+ years unmarried years later and having provided us old farts with a grandchild she'd probably have a few well chosen words to share with Catherine the Devine.
…and another 'spot on' lion stamp is awarded to 'confessions' @ 31.
I'm old enough to remember the launch of 'National Times' part the first.
Back then it was 'Nation Review' lite.
It's a provocative argument. Marriage is, as Tim points out, accompanied by a lot of historical baggage. But so are a lot of our most prized institutions. Haven't we got to the point where we can get beyond that? Ok, it used to be that marriage was a way of establishing property rights, but surely we have evolved beyond that. Nowadays, most people simply see it as a public forum for declaring their love for, and commitment to, another person. What is so regressive about that?
There are aspects of marriage and weddings that still need to be renegotiated to keep pace with this kind of social function. Allowing gay couples to marry is for me the very least of these. Other, more cosmetic issues such as the woman taking the man's surname are, to my mind, problematic, but those are not any reason to do away with the whole institution of marriage, any more than the
Jessica Valenti, the American feminist, wrote a really interesting piece about feminist reactions to her engagement, as well as her and her partner's efforts to make the wedding/marriage process their own. http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/apr/24/feminist-wedding-jessica-valenti
Also, about the divorce rate argument: this strikes me as a particularly blatant red herring. If we didn't do anything because there's a decent chance we would fail, we would never enter into romantic relationships at all, or for that matter start a uni course, try to run a marathon, take up skiing or the piano, write a novel…
Accidentally deleted half a para. Never mind.
Lucy (happily unmarried; thinking about waiting for full gay marriage rights before I take the plunge, subject to discussion with partner on the matter)
well, it's worked, hasn't it? 36 comments so far…
Daphon, the jewellry involves chocolate pearls and BIG diamonds. Screw tradition!
Pedro, I'd marry you for 20 years if that's what I got at the end of it!In retrospect, getting all your friends, rellies and various hangers on together in the one room, standing in front of them and saying "We really mean this" means an awful loss of face if you muck up.
All relationships have rocky patches. You fall out of love and wonder why on earth you're with that person, but you soldier on 'cos you were silly enough to tell all those people you meant it. Then, luckily, you fall back in love again and wonder why you ever thought it was all over.
My partner once described marriage as 'glue, but not super glue' – it helps you stick together, but you know that it's not indissolvable, and that's good too.
(I think we're at about the 28 year mark).
I've heard the secret to a happy marriage is driving down to the gate to pick up your wife in a hurricane. I believe this to be true.
Glad to see that you have looked at stupidity from a leftist to task in your piece Dave, must be a first for this site {Juvenile emoticon removed — Scott}
Well done! -
So you think marriage is a good thing yes? Ready to share it with same sex couples yet?
Thought not -
I note a whole heap of ad hominem and only passing attempts to take Deveny's argument apart in this thread. Utterly pathetic. Some standouts:
"Interestingly her wiki page cites PP as a reference for this sentence:'Rumors of a mental illness were created by insecure men not able to cope with a woman who has an opinion, a sense of humor and is doesn't spend her life googling people.'"
Nice implication. I seem to recall that Bolt took a shot at her in fairly similar fashion.
"Its a memory I cherish and I expect Ms Deveny probably is only spouting sour grapes because no one was foolish enough to go through one with her.
Oh and as a bonus Ms Deveny you get a slightly lower lifespan which for you should mean less time to be lonely and bitter, so please don't ever contemplate it."Ah, the "she's unattractive and undesirable" card. Outstanding, and a staple of right wing punditry.
C- for the lot of you. Could do better.
Disclosure: I'm married, too, so you guys can get off your high horses right now.
Mr Surly
My opinion on Gay marriage is well known and I don't resile from it by even the smallest iota, however it is just not relevant to the topic of Dave's post here quite simply Deveny's piece is all about Heterosexual marriage, players for the other team and their agenda are entirely off topic. -
Actually Iain, Deveny places Gay marriage in the mix in her opening paragraph.
"however it is just not relevant to the topic"
It's relevant to the reason that marriage is a crock (which is the topic), after all it discriminates against those who don't fit the 'image' of what dinosaurs consider a committed couple. Allow consenting adults to choose their partners from the massive pool of other consenting adults then it may be worth the paper it's written on (to me that is).
"Ms Deveny probably is only spouting sour grapes because no one was foolish enough to go through one with her."
But there was someone foolish enough to marry you!
no 42: my noting that was in recognition of Deveny's neat takedown of Bolt's (and Blair's -let's be honest here) disgraceful attempts to ridicule her. Obviously you aren't familiar with the PP thread Deveny's comment came from (the one I highlight, and the one in wiki), otherwise you would've seen the comments I made in response to Bolt/blair. A giant FAIL on your part Mephistopheles. If you want to mischaracterise others you had better be sure of the ground you stake out.
Oh and I note you've disingenuously omitted the first para of my comment where I rebuke the very same attacks from others. Another fail.
players for the other team and their agenda are entirely off topic.
In your opinion. As Rob says the failure to recognise marriage other than between a man and a woman is one of the reasons why the institution is seen by many as anachronistic.
Point conceded on Deveny's opening Dave , I read the piece yesterday and it I was commenting from my poor memory of the piece.
However Gay marriage is hardly the focus of her argument now is it?
It seems to me that those who are so vehemently anti marriage are the poor sad sacks who can't make a go of any sort of commitment, unusually because they are too selfish and uncompromising. -
"It seems to me that those who are so vehemently anti marriage are the poor sad sacks who can't make a go of any sort of commitment,"
I'm happily married, committed and monogamous myself, and I'm not against marriage, I'm against the bigoted discriminatory constraints put on marriage by the state! Please, pay attention!
"I was commenting from my poor memory of the piece."
More like your inability to comprehend!
"selfish and uncompromising."
perfectly sums up your stance on gay marriage. LOL


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Barack Obama Shakes Hands with Cuban President Raul Castro … What's a Hand Shake Among Commie Friends?
This morning in Soweto, Johannesburg President Barack Obama shook hands with Cuban leader Raúl Castro at the memorial for the late President Nelson Mandel. Hmm, I am not quite sure why anyone is surprised, this is the man who has embraced America' enemies and made deals with them, bowed to Saudi princes and other foreign leaders, while treating our closest allies like dirt. What's in a hand shake? A lot.
But like I said, what is a handshake among communist comrades, water does seek its own level now, doesn't it? It would appear that Hot Air agrees as they opine, "One's a communist who's reduced his country to ruins, the other's Raul Castro".
But of course CNN was quick to defend and make excuses for Ovama's actions. Hmm, guess it was a good thing Adolf Hitler was not attending.
Obama knew, of course, that Castro would be on stage. But refusing to shake Castro's hand would not have been in keeping with Mandela's legacy of reconciliation. And it was not the first handshake between American-Cuban leaders. In 2000, at the United Nations, then-President Bill Clinton shook hands with Fidel Castro, the leader of the Cuban Revolution, its first revolutionary president, and Raul's brother.
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Samantha Scheibe,George Zimmerman's Girlfriend Wants to Drop Charges of Aggrevated Assault and 'Be With Him'
27 year old Samantha Scheibe, the girl friend of George Zimmerman, who called 911 and claimed that he was vandalizing her stuff and threatening her with a gun, no longer wants to press charges of domestic violence and aggravated assault against him.Zimmerman was charged with domestic violence after supposedly pointing a gun at his girlfriend, listen to the 911 call. Zimmerman had posted a $9000 bail, was told to stay away from his girlfriend and no guns.
In fact, she not only does not want to know press charges against him, she wants to be with him. Good grief, here is a match made some where. DA's have to now determine whether they still want to pursue charges against Zimmerman without the cooperation of Scheibe. Mediaite reports, Zimmerman faced charges of aggravated assault after his girlfriend, Samantha Scheibe, requested in writing that the court amend his bail conditions so that he can have contact with her. She wrote that Zimmerman "never pointed a gun at or toward my face in a threatening manner." Scheibe added, "I want to be with George."
George Zimmerman's girlfriend who called Florida police to say he was breaking her stuff and was brandishing a weapon no longer wants to press charges against him and instead wants to get back together with him.
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A note to George Zimmerman, go away. Stay out of the media and stop this nonsense.
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Incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor Trails GOP Challenger Rep. Tom Cotton in Arkansas 48% to 41%
Democrat Senator in Serious Trouble Because of Barack Obama and Obamacare … Democrats, Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid.
According to a new poll from Citizens United Political Victory Fund by Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway of the polling company, Inc./WomanTrend, shows that incumbent Democrat Senator Mark Pryor is in serious trouble and trails Republican challenger Tom Cotton, 48% to 41%. Many Democrat politicians in "red" states are considered vulnerable because of their support of Obamacare and the disaster and lie that it has turned out to be. Pryor trails badly with Independents, 31%-52%. Also, Barack Obama and Obamacare have a favorable, unfavorable in Arkansas of 35%-61% and 29%-62%, respectively.
Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor trails his Republican challenger, Rep. Tom Cotton, by seven points among likely voters in Arkansas, 48 percent to 41 percent, according to a new poll from a conservative group that says his support of the health care reform law is costing him.
The survey, shared exclusively with POLITICO, was conducted Friday and Saturday for the Citizens United Political Victory Fund by Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway of the polling company, Inc./WomanTrend.
Cotton is ahead among independents by 21 points and among women by 4 points.
"Mark Pryor is synonymous with Obamacare and Obamacare is synonymous with making life worse for the American people," said David N. Bossie, president of Citizens United. "That's why Pryor is losing to Cotton in the Arkansas Senate race."
Pryor, considered by many to be the most vulnerable of the incumbents running for reelection, is viewed favorably by 44 percent of Arkansas voters and unfavorably by 39 percent. The poll found that only one-third of independents view Pryor favorably and 52 percent see him in a negative light.
Other data from the polland from Hot Air.
I guess Barack Obama must have promised Mark Pryor and the other Democrats who voted for Obamacare against the will of the American people, you can keep your Senate and House seat, if you like your Senate and House seat. We all know how that worked for American insureds.
I Feel So Much Safer … TSA Agent Confiscate Sock Monkey "Rooster Monkburn's" Six Shooter Pistol
A TSA agent confiscated "Rooster Monkburn's" six shooter and threaten to call the police on Phyllis May of Redmond, Washington at the St. Louis, Missouri airport. Just one small, actually very small detail, Rooster Monkburn is a sock monkey and the pistol confiscated might be about 2 inches in size. REALLY, you can't make this stuff up. So much for common sense these days. The TSA agent actually said, she was confiscating the tiny toy because "it looks like a gun." Wow, so does that mean if I pointed my fore finger and thumb like a gun, they would cut my fingers off because they looked like a gun as well?
So instead of racially profiling terrorists, we disarm sock monkeys instead. You know, there is stupid, there is frigging stupid and then there is TSA stupid. When exactly did we lose all semblance of common sense in America?
"His pistol was in there," she says of the sock monkey "Rooster Monkburn," a take-off on John Wayne character "Rooster Cogburn" from the film "True Grit". May and her husband were going through the screening process when she noticed that one of her bags was missing.
"And the (TSA agent) held it up and said 'whose is this?'" she said. "I realized oh, my God this is my bag."
May said the TSA agent went through the bag, through the sewing supplies and found the two-inch long pistol.
"She said 'this is a gun,'" said May. "I said no, it's not a gun it's a prop for my monkey."
"She said 'If I held it up to your neck, you wouldn't know if it was real or not,' and I said 'really?'" said May.
The TSA agent told May she would have to confiscate the tiny gun and was supposed to call the police.
"I said well go ahead," said May. "And I said really? You're kidding me right, and she said no it looks like a gun."
"She took my monkey's gun," said May, who has retained her sense of humor.
No terrorist groups, including the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah or the Muslim Brotherhood, have taken credit for "Rooster Monkburn" and his pistol who we all know his real name is Abdul.
Posted December 10, 2013 by Scared Monkeys al-Qaeda, America - United States, Bizarre, Home Land Security, Idiot, Jihad, Political Correctness, Radical Islam, Terrorism, Travel, TSA, US National Security, War on Terror, We the People, WTF | one comment |
Daily Commentary – Tuesday, December 10, 2013 – Preview of Tonights Dana Pretzer Show
- With Diane Dimond and Blink from Blink on Crime discussing what they've been up to in 2013
Search Continues for Family Missing Since Sunday, 12/8/13 in Snow & Cold in Northwest Nevada: James Glanton, 34, Christina MacIntee, 25, His Two Children Evan Glanton & Chloe Glanton, and MacIntee's Niece and Nephew, Shelby Fitzpatrick & Tate McIntee
The race is on against snow and cold temperatures to find a family of six who are missing in the Northwest mountains of Nevada.
Rescue teams racing against the clock and the bitter cold to find 34 year old James Glanton, his girlfriend 25 year old Christina McIntee, his two children, Evan Glanton and Chloe Glanton, and Christina's niece and nephew, Shelby Fitzpatrick and Tate McIntee. The four missing children are ages, a 10 year old, two 4 year olds and a 3 year old. The six disappeared in the Seven Troughs mountain range on a snow outing to play in the snow.
The family has not had any communication with others since they went missing, according to Sheila Reitz of the sheriff's office.
They went to the Seven Troughs area on isolated federal land about noon on Sunday in a silver Jeep with a black top, authorities said. It was unclear what supplies they might have been carrying.
"I'm hoping they all huddled together and stayed in the Jeep," said Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Chuck Allen, who added that the area has spotty cellular coverage. "That would be a best-case scenario."
Frigid weather gripping much of the United States led to a frenzied search in northwest Nevada, where rescue teams are searching a mountainous area for two adults and four children who went to play in the snow and never returned.
James Glanton, 34, and Christina MacIntee, 25, are missing, along with Glanton's two children and MacIntee's niece and nephew. The children are 3 to 10 years old, the Pershing County Sheriff's Office said.
The group set out Sunday for Seven Troughs mountain range and haven't been seen since.
Fears intensified as the temperature plummeted to below zero.
Amanda Fitzpatrick, mother of 10-year-old Shelby Fitzpatrick, has joined the search in the freezing cold.
"It's been extremely hard, probably the hardest 24 to 36 hours of my life," she told CNN's Piers Morgan. "It's my baby girl."
UPDATE I: Extreme cold raises concerns for missing family in Nevada.
Temperatures in storm-stricken parts of the country were expected to remain 10- to 20 degrees below normal for the remainder of the week, the National Weather Service said.
Overnight temperatures in Lovelock, Nev., near the mountain range were below zero, WeatherUnderground.com indicated.
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70% Of Calfornia's Doctors Expected To Boycott Obamacare … But I Thought Obama Promised You Could Keep Your Doctor?
I guess MSNBC would consider 70% of doctors racists …
From The Washington Times, 70% of doctors in California expected to boycott Obamacare. The dirty little secret is just because you are enrolled in a healthcare plan, does not mean you have access to doctors and hospitals of your choice. Physicians have to belong to the network and accept what looks like Medicaid reimbursements. So much for that Obama promise, that if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, PERIOD!
An estimated seven out of every 10 physicians in deep-blue California are rebelling against the state's Obamacare health insurance exchange and won't participate, the head of the state's largest medical association said.
"It doesn't surprise me that there's a high rate of nonparticipation," said Dr. Richard Thorp, president of the California Medical Association.
…California offers one of the lowest government reimbursement rates in the country — 30 percent lower than federal Medicare payments. And reimbursement rates for some procedures are even lower.
…"Some physicians have been put in the network and they were included basically without their permission," Lisa Folberg said. She is a CMA's vice president of medical and regulatory Policy.
"They may be listed as actually participating, but not of their own volition,"
…"This is a dirty little secret that is not really talked about as they promote Covered California," Waters said. He called the exchange's doctors list a "shell game" because "the vast majority" of his doctors are not participating.
But if you want to pay more, you can keep your doctor … so says Obamacare architect. So let's understand this, Obama just created a two tier insurance plan, one for the rich and one for the peasants?
Posted December 9, 2013 by Scared Monkeys Barack Obama, Epic Fail, Fraud, Healthcare, Healthcare Canceled, Healthcare.gov, Insurance Canceled, Misleader, Misrepresentation, Obamacare, Obamanation, The Lying King, WTF, You Can Keep Your Insurance | 6 comments |
MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry Says "Obamacare" Is Same As Using The "N" Word … The Liberal MSM Playing the Race Card as They Play Chief WH Propagandists
WOW, when I first watched this VIDEO I thought it was a SNL parody skit. Then realized this lib was actually being serious. I guess she went to that media/WH meeting about how to shill for Obamacare! Yup, NO MEDIA BIAS HERE …
Five years later, two elections later, record number of Americans on food stamps, real unemployment at all time highs, median household incomes at all time lows, job participation at all time lows, the Middle East in chaos, greater terror threats to America than ever before, millions of Americans losing their insurance, premium costs skyrocketing, scandals like IRS-date, AP-gate, Fast & Furious, NSA-gate and the liberal MSM is using the race card with the blessing of the Obama White House. MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry is saying that by saying "Obamacare" is the same as using the "N" word and you are a racist. In a cheer-leading Obama rant that would have made Joseph Goebbels blush, she suggested the term "Obamacare" and the N-word are interchangeable, claiming both were "conceived by a group of wealthy white men who needed to . . . render [a black man] inferior and unequal and diminish his accomplishments." Hmm, what was Reaganomics, Romneycare, Hillary-healthcare? What about Voo-doo economics? Were all these racists too? It's called political discourse you IDIOT!
How very sad that liberals in the media continue to try to divide America and make everything about race in an attempt to stop people from criticizing a disastrous law by calling them racists. A note to MSNBC and Melissa Harris-Perry that have you taken a look at how "We the People" feel about Barack Obama? There is a reason why Barack Obama is at an all-time low in the polls, down 23% with Hispanics, down 17% with Non-Whites and down 14% with women, are they racist too? Are the millennial's who voted overwhelmingly for Obama in 2008 and 2012 racist too, 57% disapprove of Obamacare and 52% want it repealed..
HARRIS-PERRY: "I want to talk today about a controversial word. It's a word that has been with us for years. And like it or not, it's indelibly printed in the pages of American history. A word that was originally intended as a derogatory term, meant to shame and divide and demean. The word was conceived of by a group of wealthy white men who needed a way to put themselves above and apart from a black man, to render him inferior and unequal and diminish his accomplishments.
"President Obama has been labelled with this word by his opponents, and at first he rose above it, hoping that if he could just make a cause for what he'd achieved, his opponents would fail in making their label stick. But no matter how many successes that he had as president, he realized there were still many people for whom he'd never be anything more than that one disparaging word — a belief he knew was held not just by his political opponents, but also by a significant portion of the American electorate.
"And so he decided if you can't beat them, you've got to join them. So he embraced the word and made it his own, sending his opposition a message they weren't expecting: 'If that's what you want me to be, I'll be that.'
"Y'all know the word that I'm talking about. Obamacare! That's right! I said it and I'm not ashamed, and neither is President Obama!" (More HERE)
Ukraine Protesters Tear Down Commie Lenin's Statue in Kiev … #ukraine
Hundreds of thousands of protesters in Ukraine took to the streets in another mass demonstration of anger against President Viktor F. Yanukovich's decision to break off negotiations with the European Union. They toppled the statue of Communist leader Lenin in a symbolic demonstration and then took a sledgehammer to it.
Public protests thundered into a full-throttle civil uprising in Ukraine on Sunday, as hundreds of thousands of protesters answered President Viktor F. Yanukovich's dismissiveness with their biggest rally so far, demanding that he and his government resign.
At the height of the unrest on Sunday night, a seething crowd toppled and smashed a statue of Lenin, the most prominent monument to the Communist leader in Kiev. The act was heavy with symbolism, underscoring the protesters' rage at Russia over its role in the events that first prompted the protests: Mr. Yanukovich's abrupt refusal to sign sweeping political and free-trade agreements with the European Union.
After an electrifying assembly in Independence Square in the center of Kiev, the main focus of the protests, the huge crowd surged across the capital, erecting barriers to block the streets around the presidential headquarters and pitching huge tents in strategic intersections. They were not challenged by the police, who have largely disengaged since their bloody crackdown on a group of protesters on Nov. 30 sharply increased outrage at the government.
Radio Free Europe was Live blogging the event.
Interestingly enough, as those in the Ukraine tear down the statue of Lenin, many think that US President Barack Obama is looking to erect it.
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Congressman Jason -- -- of Utah has been one of the leading congressional critics of the state department's handling of Libyan attack.
And originally expected more resignations or or -- people to be forced out last what a week or two ago congressman and now we find out -- not only.
After that that that the -- we thought -- -- are not gonna -- let me just tell them here's what we now Eric Boswell.
He's the assistant secretary of state for diplomatic security it.
They said he resigned isn't doing he just shifted his desk he's it's basically desk change and the three -- Charlene lamb -- Maxwell on some other unidentified person.
-- just been placed on administrative leave there's that's not that any -- they're coming back after a little -- Is that true.
Yeah I mean that that's a paid vacation as far as I'm concern today it looks like more of a reward in the bonus for a job club but we -- -- -- Americans.
We got three people were maimed and injured in -- in that firefight.
And no accountability.
You you have an internal review done by the accountability review board they found more than two dozen systemic problems and challenge it changes our challenges.
They had sixty different recommendations I mean that place was an absolute -- and disaster and we -- four dead people and not one person held accountable.
We haven't -- the terrorists that did this in fact the only person who is in jail is the person they created that video which we know now had absolutely nothing to do with the.
What's your information congressman on on whether these folks.
Because initially the reporting.
Was that they had resigned and there was a lot of reporting on that before the Christmas break that they had resigned and and now we find out that they haven't resigned that there were all still getting paid by the taxpayer -- -- -- at the State Department.
One desk shift in and a few others on administrative leave and and then they will resume their duties including Charlene -- the one who told your go to your congress your colleague congressman -- That that the security was that -- on that day well.
That -- it starts at the top when you hear the president of the United States say well it's just sloppiness.
Well there how that he have -- people you have hundreds of embassies and consulates thousands of people still serving overseas.
He had this review board comes in at just over sixty days finds more than two dozen systemic failures.
I mean.
I don't know and that nobody's held accountable nobody is resigned to it it's just like what we saw quite frankly in fast and furious I mean nobody was really held accountable of that situation as well.
It just seems to be a pattern when the president United States as well it's just a little sloppy you can see where that radiates down and today to the bowels of the organization and nobody's held account while -- -- I mean.
Apparently -- -- or found guilty of of inadequate performance.
But not willful misconduct does that make a difference you.
Well when you have people that are dead as a result of your actions you would think that there be something dramatic that would change in move in this in the and and then to go out see what I have a problem with is the spokesperson from the State Department went out and let the world to believe.
That there -- these four major changes and they talked about how somebody had you know I have resigned DC actually is the word resign but they did it again they miss -- people into believing.
That they had made all these changes all as well the State Department but that is simply not true well.
Boswell resigned his post as assistant secretary -- continuing his other duties.
At state so it's basically just a tidal shift for this guy Boswell has a question about whether.
That lives up to Hillary Clinton's statement that she takes responsibility.
For what happened in -- -- the buck stops with her and the question is.
You know.
Do we expect this to be ended did you think -- gonna see more personnel accountability or is this it.
By I -- you know how the State Department holds itself accountable I don't see it because they did that independent review board.
The accountability board but they essentially blamed everybody which means nobody was personally held accountable.
I can't imagine all the deficiencies all the recommendations and not a single person.
Is fired as a result of -- not a single person resigns eight -- you know hey I did I didn't do my job.
It's just absolutely amazing and by the way when they accountability revert review board did its job they did even interview Secretary Clinton she's in charge of the departments they're supposed to go through they're looking at how these people got killed.
And they did even talk to the secretary it's unbelievable.
They seem to conclude that it didn't go up to her level but the question is.
You know you and I've spoken before about the cables that ambassador Stephen sent.
Including on the day he died I mean that they were now begging for more security they were very worried about the growing presence of al-Qaeda and the accountability review board concluded that as well.
And I mean I guess a lot of Americans will be left wondering -- was the person you know do we know to this moment who was the person who look to those cables and said.
No you're not getting them and is what's happening to that person is that -- -- she just gonna get our administrative leave.
Is that paid vacation is that what that is paid -- you get pay.
Yeah oh yeah oh yeah they're getting paid I mean that's what's it's just ridiculous about they spend weeks not having come to work I get paid -- -- that sounds like a paid vacation to me.
The the problem I have is that on June 4 we were bombed there was a terrorist activity in Ben got to bear -- in April but they're -- June 4.
What happened then how can that not rise to the level of the secretary of state -- and then not rise the level the present United States.
There were not changes then and people are yelling screaming asking for more assets.
He had terrorist activity going on there.
Believe me the oversight committee chairman -- them myself others we will continue to pursue this this thing is not done we need to see the information.
We expect to have additional hearings on the foreign affairs committee's gonna do this we're still going on.
It's kind of Jason -- thanks so much for being here.
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It was 97 degrees in Kansas City on Wednesday. But the heat didn't stop Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation scholars Robert Litan and Timothy Kane from churning out new ideas for job creation.
The setting was a roundtable discussion with financial services industry representatives. Kauffman's latest idea is to import job creators from abroad to create start-ups and hire workers, and attract tourists to give more business to our stores, beaches, restaurants, and wilderness areas.
Start-ups lead to innovation, which leads to economic growth. Think Facebook, with its friends and captivation of an entire generation. Or think of Apple, a start-up just a generation ago. Last quarter all 9.3 million iPads produced were sold. People are buying them for personal use, companies are buying them for employees. And this is in an economy with a 1.9 percent growth rate and 9 percent plus unemployment.
If we had another two dozen new Apples or Facebooks every year making similarly attractive products, our economic growth and our employment would really take off. That's because data show that new companies, those in their first few years of existence, hire a lot of workers on net. That means some companies start and fail, but others make up for it, and more.
Many people don't understand how immigrants could solve our jobs problem. "Why give out more visas when we have a high unemployment rate?" is a typical question.
But Kauffman data show that immigrants found new companies in America at greater rates than do native-born Americans. So if we allowed more immigrants to enter, and gave green cards to those who created jobs, employment would rise.
Consider Sergei Brin's Google, Andrew Grove's Intel; Jerry Yang's Yahoo; Pierre Omidyar's eBay; and Elon Musk's PayPal, Tesla Motors, and SpaceX, to name but a few. Past founders include Alexander Graham Bell, Levi Strauss, Adolph Coors, and Henry Heinz.
Kane explained to me that once companies are around five years old, they appear to reach a hiring equilibrium. They keep the workers they have already hired, but on average their employee expansion rate slows down and they generate no new jobs. So the best way to expand employment in an economy is to figure out how to get more new, innovative firms.
A bill sponsored by two senators, Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry and Indiana Republican Richard Lugar, would do just that. The Kerry-Lugar Startup Visa Act would set up a new class of visa called the EB-6, aimed especially at entrepreneurs.
Those who could bring in capital from abroad, or who have already generated U.S. sales, would be eligible for the visa. If they hired a certain number of non-family members, the EB-6 would transition into a green card, and they could stay forever and become citizens.
The Kerry-Lugar bill proposes about 5,000 EB-6 visas a year. The Kauffman Foundation suggests making the number unlimited, to allow as many founders as possible to have the opportunity to come to America to start companies. Those immigrants who did not hire workers would not receive green cards and would have to return to their countries.
In essence, the Kauffman plan would allow America to take a number of potential entrepreneurs on a provisionary basis, and keep the successful ones.
This visa would be especially attractive to some of the million immigrants in America who now have temporary H1-B visas, work permits obtained by employers that require workers eventually to return to their home countries. If H1-B visa holders could start companies and hire other workers, they could convert the H1-B visa to the EB-6, and then progress to the green card.
Once an H1-B visa holder was converted into an EB-6, one market for the new entrepreneur would be his former firm. Rather than selling his services to an employer, he would sell his firm's services to his former employer-and to other employers also.
Another group that could benefit from EB-6 visas would be the 60,000 foreign students who graduate with American degrees in the technical fields of science, technology, engineering, and math.
The possibility of such visas would encourage more foreign students to come here to study. Now, many don't come, because they believe that they will just have to return home when their studies are completed. Instead, they study in Canada, Britain, and Australia.
And there's another way that visas could help our job picture, Litan said. We could be giving out more tourist visas, and promoting our country as the global vacation spot.
Walk into a hotel in Zurich, Switzerland, and you can find a brochure in Mandarin Chinese promoting the surrounding area. Walk into the Willard Hotel in Washington D.C. and you see nothing in Mandarin, and little in any other languages. It's no wonder that Chinese tourists go to Switzerland or Singapore.
Instead, our embassies and consulates around the globe seek to discourage visitors. They interrogate them as to their intentions and make sure they don't want to stay here. Plus, they charge substantial sums for a visa application, in the range of $200 to $300. If the visa application is rejected, the embassy keeps the fee.
We have a natural desire for security. But we need to work out some way that tourism and security can be reconciled. All states offer attractive tourist destinations, and with the weak dollar, America is good value.
America is facing an economic crisis on a scale that our government at times seems incapable of grasping. Our mounting debts are not the result one mistake made at one time, but a series of mistakes made repeatedly over decades. At least the Kauffman Foundation is thinking of ways to turn America around and head us in the right direction, one job at a time.
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Governor's Day started without the governor: Lieutenant Governor Robert Duffy subbed in for the ribbon cutting, with Andrew Cuomo hosting President Obama in Western New York. But, the Governor left the presidential tour after Buffalo and flew to Syracuse, arriving in time for a 2pm mini-tour that included a stop for a Giannelli sausage sandwich.
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