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My wife and I just got our updates from Kaiser telling us what our 2014 rates will be. Her monthly has been $168 this year, mine $150. We have a high deductible. We are generally healthy people who don’t go to the doctor often. I barely ever go. The insurance is in case of a major catastrophe.

Well, now, because of Obamacare, my wife’s rate is gong to $302 per month and mine is jumping to $284.

I am canceling insurance for us and I am not paying any fucking penalty. What the hell kind of reform is this?

Daily Kos: Obamacare will double my monthly premium (according to Kaiser)

h/t to Dave G

Obama spent the last two weeks calling Republicans terrorists, arsonists, traitors and extortionists, then when he scared the little girls running the Republican Party – he succeeded in raising the debt to $17 trillion. Possibly the most dysfunctional week in Washington DC history.

This prompted the Washington Post to ask the obvious question :

Can Obama seize the moment and make Washington work? – The Washington Post

Are these people actually as stupid as they pretend to be?

COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut

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This year the US recorded the fewest 100º F readings of any year in the past century, and about one sixth as many as 1936.

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Democrat and Republican leaders are trying to label Ted Cruz as being the person who desperately tried to delay the disastrous launch of Obamacare.

That ought to make him the most popular politician in America going into the 2014 elections.

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There’s a dark cloud rising from the desert floor
I packed my bags and I’m heading straight into the storm
Gonna be a twister to blow everything down
That ain’t got the faith to stand it’s ground

Blow away the dreams that tear you apart
Blow away the dreams that break your heart
Blow away the lies that leave you nothing
But lost and brokenhearted

The dogs on main street howl ’cause they understand
If I could take one moment into my hands
Mister I ain’t a boy, no I’m a man
And I believe in a promised land

Gore also expressed support for the divestment movement that has been growing in popularity on college campuses in the U.S., referring to investment in fossil fuels as a “carbon bubble.” The movement contends that investing in fossil fuels is a moral hazard but will become a financial hazard, too, when there is a global price on carbon emissions.

Al Gore Draws Parallels Between Budget Crisis And Climate Change Denial

Gore also compared climate change denial to other positions that once seemed entrenched and insurmountable, like the opposition to civil rights in the 1950s and ’60s

Al Gore Draws Parallels Between Budget Crisis And Climate Change Denial

We are 95% certain that you will strike a vast oil reservoir 1,500 ft. below this location. Our increased certainty is based on our last 15 consecutive failures.

Prior to today, Fort Collins, CO had received 169 cm of snow this year, one cm shy of the 1997 record. We now have a cm of new snow, and it is snowing very heavily – making this the snowiest January-October on record.

We are also coming up on the five year anniversary of this brilliant prediction from the University of Colorado.

Study: Climate change may force skiers uphill | Aspen Daily News Online