Did they think we wouldn't find these things out? ... Thx Judi C!

DID THEY THINK AMERICANS WOULDN'T FIND THIS

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  Michelle Obama's Princeton classmate is executive at company that built Obamacare website.

First Lady Michelle Obama's Princeton classmate is a top executive at the company that earned the no-bid contract to build the failed Obamacare website.

Toni Townes-Whitley, Princeton class of '85, is senior vice president at CGI Federal, which earned the no-bid contract to build the $678 million Obamacare enrollment website at Healthcare.gov. CGI Federal is the U.S. arm of a Canadian company.

Townes-Whitley and her Princeton classmate Michelle Obama are both members of the Association of Black Princeton Alumni.

Toni Townes, '85, is a onetime policy analyst with the General Accounting Office and previously served in the Peace Corps in Gabon, West  Africa. Her decision to return to work, as an African-American woman, after six years of raising kids was applauded by a Princeton alumni publication in 1998.

George Schindler, the president for U.S. and Canada of the Canadian-based CGI Group, CGI Federal's parent company, became an Obama 2012  campaign donor after his company gained the Obamacare website contract.

On the government end, construction of the disastrous Healthcare.govwebsite was overseen by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a division of longtime  failed website-builder Kathleen Sebelius' Department of Health and Human Services.

CGI Federal did not immediately return a request for comment.

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Soooooo...........

Let's see if we can connect the dots here ...

1.) No American companies considered;

2.) A Canadian company hired;

3.) No Bid contract for $93 million;

4.) Top executive at website-building firm went to school with Michelle Obama;

5.) Previous experience building gun registry for Canadian government;

6.) Fired by Canadian Government for overruns that cost Canada $100 million;

4.) Overruns for Obamacare enrollment website now costing U.S. $678 million, and still going up.

Does this bother anybody else besides me? And this is just one of their corrupt enterprises. The Obamas are worse than "Bernie" Madoff  and far more dangerous to the country.

 

 

George Welsh, formerly Schwartz- Ace of WW II ... Thx

    George Welch’s birth certificate lists his last name as Schwartz. After WWI, ethnic hatred continued toward Germans. To protect their son's promising future, his parents legally changed his to Welsh.

  

    Son of a wealthy family, George attended private schools and he excelled at sports. His academic abilities were remarkable . . without his putting out any more personal effort than required.  He moved on to Purdue to study mechanical engineering.

  

    But smitten by aviation, George stayed at Purdue for the necessary two years needed to be accepted for Air Corp pilot training.     

 

    In slightly over a year, Welch was commissioned, got his wings  . . then really ' lucked out ' by receiving a dream fighter

pilot assignment to the 47th Fighter Squadron near Pearl Harbor.     

 

    Arriving in February 1941, George was startled to see antique Boeing P-26 fighters. This vulnerable ' Gee Bee ' looking bird

was little more than an airborne target .. . for the more powerful . . faster enemy fighters.  

 

 

 

     To have flown the ' Pea Shooter ' in air combat against a modern air force was considered suicidal . . and that was soon demonstrated in the Philippines. But his discomfort was assuaged when promised the ' Pea Shooters ' would soon be replaced

by a slightly better Curtiss P-36 . . and . . factory-new P-40s .     

 

    Welch settled into the easy pace of a pre-war Hawaii. There was an abundance of time off. And parties were a favorite pastime, frequently lasting from sunset to dawn. George smoothly integrated into the social life with his typical self-confidence.  And life

was pretty good for the 24-year-old fighter pilot. 

 

    The P-40B fighters arrived. As long as its pilot did NOT try to out turn the Zero in a dogfight, and instead took advantage

of its dive acceleration . . and a tiny handful of additional strengths . . it would fight . . fairly well against Japanese fighters IF 

the aircraft was able to achieve a strategic advantage.

    The party and poker game started shortly after 21:00 hours. It continued strong until the sky had become brighter as

the sun neared horizon on December 7th, 1941. 

 

    Welch and fellow pilot, Ken Taylor crawled into their beds at Wheeler Airfield, expecting to sleep in that Sunday morning.

But two hours into their ' party stupored slumber ' a loud outdoors rumble caused them to leap straight out of their beds.

 

    Through his B.O.Q.'s windows, Welch was surprised to see oily smoke rising from the burning airplanes on Wheeler air

field's flight line.  Then . . just outside . .  a ' red meat ball '. . blurred past his bedroom window.

 

J-A-P-A-N-E-S-E  ! 

   

Pulling his rumpled party clothes back on . . George raced down the hall  . . as Taylor burst out of his door. 

 

    Both them had flown their assigned P-40B fighters over to a smaller Haleiwa airfield 16 miles away from Honolulu, as part

of an effort to disperse the squadron’s fighters, in case of attack.

             

      Welsh phoned Haleiwa's aircfield's duty number, ordering the duty sergeant to make sure both their fighters were fueled and armed . . warmed up.  And that . . immediately . . he and Taylor were jumping into their car . . and be on their way.

     

    They piled in Taylor's car . . And as they sped through the base gate . .  as a Japanese dive-bomber's bullets gouged the sandy dirt of their tire marks. 

 

    Once outside the base, Taylor pushed the car to several times . . touch 100 mph . . during 16 hill-winding miles.  Then in a cloud of sand . . Taylor jammed on his brakes very close to their warmed up . . armed P-40s.     

  

    Lifting a party-suited leg into his fighter's cockpit, Welch angrily listened to the crew chief tell him :  

 

" S-T-O-P,  sir  !

 

We just got word that you are  NOT  going.  Just ' hide away ' your airplanes ! "

      

Welch instantly shouted :

" G-E-T   O-F-F   MY  WING ! " 

    The crew chief slid off.  George added throttle and fast taxied to the narrow grass runway. Ignoring any formal checklist, he slammed on full power and roared down the turf .. . with fighter pilot Ken Taylor . . couple of minutes behind him.

 

    There had been no 50 caliber bullets available.  But Welch ' yanked ' on the charger handles for the wing-mounted [ deer rifle sized ] .30 caliber bullets.

 

    At the same time, he spotted a large formation of Japanese about to attack a nearby Marine airfield. With his P-40's throttle

pushed hard against its stop, Welch raced in with destruction and revenge on his mind. 

 

 

George  did  NOT bother to count them.

He did not care  HOW many enemy he was attacking.  

 

    Very close in, Welch lined up on a dive-bomber . . opened fire.  And although one of his wing gun's jammed, an elliptical-

winged, one-engined Japanese bomber exploded in flames . . nosed straight into the ground.     

  

Pulling away . . Welch felt his P-40 fighter take some ' hits ' from a Japanese bomber's rear gunner, flying nearby.

 

    Temporarily moving out of shooting range, George began his improvised and incredible career as a test pilot as he ' felt

out ' his enemy re-designed fighter.

 

    After determining that it was still flyable, he headed back just as his buddy ' flamed ' a red meatball emblazoned bomber.

  

    Zooming in after a Japanese Val bomber, interrupting its victorious return to its carrier.   Welch . . closed to point-blank

range . . fired his un-jammed 30 cal. guns . . and sent the bomber tumbling down.     

  

    Meanwhile, Taylor latched on to another Japanese Val—fired point blank—and sent the Val down to smack the beach at

tourists' favorite Barber’s Point.

 As suddenly as it began . . the Hawaiian sky was void of Japanese aircraft.

Temporarily void.

    Both pilots touched down at Wheeler Field,  to jink around dozens of bomb craters in the runway .. .  before taxiing in to replenish their nearly exhausted ammo.

 Fortunately, one of the gas trucks had survived the attack.

    And while Welch and Taylor remained in their cockpits quafing down water as their planes were fueled and armed . . to

include the crew's finding .50 caliber ammo for the P-40's machine guns mounted just above their engines.

     Armorers could not able to clear George’s wing gun jam in time for the turn-around.  Time for the turn around was nearly

too slow . . as it was.  But the ..50 calibers would more than substitute for a ' deer rifle. '    

    Another formation of Japanese aircraft arrowed in to strike Pearl. Welch saw them and waved the ground crew away . .

started the Allison . . goosed it back to the runway and roared away . . while behind him, Taylor zoomed off using an alternative runway.     

    When Welch began retracting his wheels, he saw a Japanese fighter firing at Taylor on his take-off roll . . while other Japanese fighters began strafing Welch.

 

    With wheels not quite up, Welsh rolled into a steep left turn . .  finessing a stall's edge, in an attempt to shoot at Taylor's attacker.  As Welsh felt his landing gear click into place . . this brilliant and natural pilot had already pointed and fired his 50's

at the Zero.

 

Welsh's guns exploded the lightly armored Zero’s fuel tanks.  It became a fire ball . . then slammed into the airfield's edge. 

Minutes later, Welch spotted a lone dive bomber headed for its home aircraft carrier.

 

 

    At full power it didn’t take long for the P-40 to overhaul it. And under Welsh's decimating .50 caliber fire power  . . his

fourth victim smacked the sea.

 

Low on ammo, George returned to Honolulu.

    After shutting down his engine he discovered that Taylor had been shot in the arm—in one side . . out the other—by the

same Japanese Zero Welch had shot off his tail . . during take-off.  Courageously . . the gutsy Taylor had torn off some of his

' party togs . . plugged up the bloody holes . . then continued shooting at  Japanese.     

     Taylor had shot into several Japanese aircraft.  On the other hand, he was too busy to see them crash, so he claimed only two probables  . . and he confirmed at least two aircraft falling  . . before Welch's guns.     

     The exhausted pilots refueled, re-armed and took-off on a third sortie.  By this time however, the Japanese carriers had

defensively turned away.

For their bravery, both   Welch and Taylor were awarded the Distinguished Service Cross—certainly less than they deserved.

    Hap Arnold later stated he was ready to approve the Medal of Honor for Welch.  However, their disgruntled squadron commander successfully argued . . both fighter pilots had defied his orders.  So any higher honor was squashed.     

     Nine Japanese first wave aircraft, were shot down by anti-aircraft. However, during the second attack wave, nearly one-half

of the twenty Japanese aircraft destroyed were shot down by vengeful fighter pilots.

    Japanese Admiral Nagumo, who had already decided two attack waves were all he could afford to risk . . and he did not want

to gift the unanchored reminder of U.S. Naval fleet a better chance to located his now depleted force . . and pulled away.

    During December, Welch continued to fly combat patrols around Hawaii. But, the electrifying news of his confirmed victories had been released.  He was ordered back to the States.

 

The country was badly in need of a hero. 

 

Welch absolutely fit.          

  

After several hectic months of War Bond speeches, Welch reported to the 8th Fighter Group in New Guinea.

 

    The good news was that his new squadron had been seeing some combat. The bad news :  was that the 8th was flying a

hopelessly inferior fighter aircraft  . . the Bell P-39 Airacobra.      

    Largely due to the aircraft's poor ' air-to-air combat performance ' . . and limited round-trip range, Welch  mostly flew it in ground support . .  where the Airacobra's 37mm cannon was useful.  But its Allison engine lacked a two-stage supercharger . .

making it an absolute ' flying iron pig .. . especially at higher altitudes.

       Welch had arrived in New Guinea with four confirmed Pearl Harbor aerial victories.  And he added three more air-to-air

kills by the following December 7th.

    The Airacobra's lack of performance at altitude was not its only key sin.  The other was  . .. limited combat radius . .because the majority of air-to-air fighter conflicts were way beyond their ' iron pigs ' reach.

He despised the ' iron pig ' and he repeatedly requested a transfer to a P-38 squadron.

 

    Once George cornered his Group Commander.  He asked when they could expect to get P-38s.  The Commander had and interesting response.  And it had unique possibilities :

 

     “ We will get them . . when we run out of P-39s Airacobras !”   

 

   Hearing the Commander's reply . . was all . . Welch and the other squadron mates needed . . as they decided to give a ' shove '. . toward the almost worthless ' iron pigs ' demise !

 

    From that point forward, most real  . . or imaginary . . Airacobra problems during flight . .. would result in

its pilot unfastening his safety belt ..  .  then hitting the silk. [ Note : I'll bet you can visualize yourself using your

D-ring and dingy! ]

   

    But even as Welsh he cooperated to ' run his squadron out of ' Iron Pigs,' he was able to finagle his transfer

 across to the jungle strip's other side .. . to fly the 80th Squadron's P-38s.       

The P-38 aircraft became an integral part of George Welch's shoulder blades . . he was the P-38 Lightning.

 

In a handful of engagements . .. George shot down nine ( 9 ) more Japanese aircraft.

    One day in June 1943, he destroyed two Zeros over Lae Island. Then, two months later, George downed three

powerfully-engined ' Tony 'Ki-61 fighters near Wewak Island.

 

    However, his biggest day since, Pearl came on Sept. 2, 1943, when he destroyed three more Japanese Zeros along

with a ' twin-engine fighter nick-named ' Dinah. 

The startling thing about Welch’s victories is that they all came . . in multiples.

 

Virtually every time he found himself in air combat, he would shoot down two or more of the enemy.     

     During those weeks, George Welch's endemic and lingering malaria had grown far worse.   He was ordered to a

Sydney hospital, where doctors were shocked at his physical condition.

 

     They decided he had seen enough combat, so with sixteen ( 16 ) air-to-air confirmed kills, George was sent home . . Unfortunately, in terms of combat dog fighting,  his squadron's opportunities continued to increase.

    Without his having contracted a debilitating malaria, George Welch may have surpassed multiple Ace Bong's and

McGuire's totals.

 

[ abridged from several sources ]

  

He bought a JEEP ... Thx Psul C!

 

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The Christmas Sc ale ... Thx Sarah R! and Merry Christmas good lady!

The Christmas Scale
 

 The Christmas Scale

 

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Why trust obama or hagel, his lackey? Thx Paul C!

Does anyone remember Barack Obama's great promise of the campaign of 2012? He did not make a promise to America nor to Americans. He did not make a promise to fellow politicians. Unlike so many of his promises, he is keeping this one. His promise was to Vladimir Putin of Russia. What is Obama doing to keep his promise to Putin? Everyone remembers the hot mike incident in 2012 when Barack Obama pleaded with Russian President Dmitri Medvedyev to give him time until the election. After the election, he promised Vladimir Putin, through Medvedyev, he would be more "flexible."

 

Now we have seen this flexibility.

 

Barack Obama is going to spend almost $700 million dollars of taxpayer money to buy Russian helicopters for the Afghan Air Force. But wait. Just like those TV commercials, this gets better. When Congress passed the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act, it had an interesting provision. Congress included, as a part of that law a prohibition on the United States buying helicopters from Rosoboronexport, the Russian manufacturer of the Mi-17 helicopter.

 

Unfortunately as always happens, when such laws are passed, Congress always gives the Regime an escape hatch. The law stated that Obama could buy from Rosoboronexport if the Secretary of Defense certified it was in the interest of National Security. And of course, the Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel , a man committed to destroying the US military immediately signed off on that certification. Where do we even start with this one?

 

Congress is outraged over this with Senators and Representatives from both parties writing letters about this. Of course, this is Congress' fault for allowing a law to be written with such an escape hatch. More importantly, Americans need to be asking just what the hell the Obama Regime is doing.

 

Why are we spending $700 million dollars with a Russian arms manufacturer ? Why are we even giving the Afghans these helicopters?

 

If we are going to give them helicopters, which we really shouldn't, then why not give them American made helicopters and put Americans to work?

 

if we are going to give the Afghans Russian helicopters, the ones we are giving them are an old Cold War design. There are hundreds of used MI-17 helicopters floating around the world. Why are we paying to give the Afghans brand new helicopters?

 

In the era of the Sequester, isn't there something better we can do with $700 million? American Medicare cancer patients are being turned away from hospitals and are being denied life saving treatment because of budget cuts. The American military is being gutted to the point of ineffectiveness because of budget cuts.

 

Or consider this. The United States Air Force is grounding 17 squadrons because of $591 million dollars in budget cuts. Our Air Force is not able to do its mission because it lacks the money to fly but we have the money to give Afghanistan $700 million dollars in Russian helicopters.

 

And this is where Barack Obama thinks we should spend our money? Most people reading this story will not have heard about it. Why?

 

Because the Obama Propaganda Media is moving in lock step to make sure there is no bad news that might damage Obama's presidency.This is a story that should damage him and outrage every American.

 

The only way we will ever stop Obama is if the American people know what he is doing.

 

http://en.rian.ru/military_news/20130405/180451358.html

Bob Lowe

Retired USAF/VETS

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Compare these insurance premiums ... Thx Pidge F!

  Compare these Insurance Premiums
 What ObamaCare is Really About…..interesting for sure! >> 

I'm a 54 year old consulting engineer and make between $60,000 and
$125,000 per year, depending on how hard I work and whether or not
there are work projects out there for me.

My girlfriend is 61 and makes about $18,000 per year, working as a
part-time mail clerk.

For me, making $60,000 a year, under ObamaCare, the cheapest,
lowest grade policy I can buy, which also happens to impose a
$5,000 deductible, costs $482 per month.

For my girlfriend, the same exact policy, same deductible, costs $1
per month. That's right, $1 per month. I'm not making this up.

Don't believe me? Just go to www.coveredca.gov , the ObamaCare
website for California and enter the parameters I've mentioned
above and see for yourself. By the way, my zip code is 93940. You'll need to enter that.

So OK, clearly ObamaCare is a scheme that involves putting the cost
burden of healthcare onto the middle and upper-income wage earners.
But there's a lot more to it. Stick with me.

And before I make my next points, I'd like you to think about something:

I live in Monterey County, in Central California. We have a large
land mass but just 426,000 residents - about the population of
Colorado Springs or the city of Omaha.

But we do have a large Hispanic population, including a large
number of illegal aliens, and to serve this group we have Natividad
Medical Center, a massive, Federally subsidized county medical
complex that takes up an area about one-third the size of the
Chrysler Corporation automobile assembly plant in Belvedere,
Illinois (see Google Earth View). Natividad has state-of-the-art
operating rooms, Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging, fully equipped, 24 hour emergency room, and much more.
 If you have no insurance, if you've been in a drive-by shooting or
have overdosed on crack cocaine, this is where you go. And it's
essentially free, because almost everyone who ends up in the ER is uninsured.

Last year, 2,735 babies were born at Natividad. 32% of these were
born to out-of-wedlock teenage mothers, 93% of which were Hispanic.
Less than 20% could demonstrate proof of citizenship, and 71%
listed their native language as Spanish. Of these 876 births, only
40 were covered under [any kind of] private health insurance. The taxpayers paid for the other 836.
 And in case you were wondering about the entire population - all
2,735 births - less than 24% involved insured coverage or even
partial payment on behalf of the patient to the hospital in
exchange for services. Keep this in mind as we move forward.

Now consider this:

If I want to upgrade my policy to a low-deductible premium policy,
such as what I had with my last employer, my cost is $886 per
month. But my girlfriend can upgrade her policy to the very same
level, for just $4 per month. That's right, $4 per month. $48 per
year for a zero-deductible, premium healthcare policy - the kind of
thing you get when you work at IBM (except of course, IBM employees
pay an average of $170 per month out of pocket for their coverage).

I mean, it's bad enough that I will be forced to subsidize the
ObamaCare scheme in the first place. But even if I agreed with the
basic scheme, which of course I do not, I would *never* agree to
subsidize premium policies. If I have to pay $482 a month for a
budget policy, I sure as hell do not want the guy I'm subsidizing
to get a better policy, for less that 1% of what I have to fork out each month for a low-end policy.

Why must I pay $482 per month for something the other guy gets for
a dollar? And why should the other guy get to buy an $886 policy
for $4 a month? Think about this: I have to pay $10,632 a year for
the same thing that the other guy can get for $48. $10,000 of net
income is 60 days of full time work *as an engineer*. $48 is
something I could could pay for collecting aluminum cans and plastic bottles, one day a month.

Are you with me on this? Are you starting to get an idea what
ObamaCare is really about?

ObamaCare is not about dealing with inequities in the healthcare system.
That's just the cover story. The real story is that it is a
massive, political power grab. Do you think anyone who can insure
himself with a premium policy for $4 a month will vote for anyone
but the political party that provides him such a deal? ObamaCare is
about enabling, subsizdizing, and expanding the Left's political
power base, at taxpayer expense. Why would I vote for anyone but a Democrat if I can have babies for $4 a month?
 For that matter, why would I go to college or strive for a better
job or income if it means I have to pay real money for healthcare
coverage? Heck, why study engineering when I can be a schlub for
$20K per year and buy a new F-150 with all the money I'm saving?

And think about those $4-a-month babies - think in terms of
propagation models. Think of just how many babies will be born to
irresponsible, under-educated mothers. Will we get a new crop of
brain surgeons and particle physicists from the dollar baby club,
or will we need more cops, criminal courts and prisons? One thing
you can be certain of: At $4 a month, they'll multiply, and
multiply, and multiply. And not one of them will vote Republican.

ObamaCare: It's all about political power.

Gingrich sees Christie-Perry fight to go against Hillary ... Thx Newsmax

I have respect for Newt, but I see this as Repubs shooting themselves in the foot again.

 

SamKat

 

 Gingrich Sees Christie-Perry Showdown for 2016 GOP Bid

Sunday, 22 Dec 2013 12:52 PM

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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says he is betting on a Chris Christie-Rick Perry showdown for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.

"You can imagine a Perry-Christie fight," Gingrich said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union. "That would be a very interesting choice for the Republican Party."

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As for the Democrats, it's Hillary Clinton all the way, Gingrich said.

"If she runs, she is the inevitable nominee," he said.

Gingrich also thinks President Barack Obama, whose approval rating stands at 41
percent, can make a political recovery in 2014.
"Presidents can and do recover," Gingrich said. "What he needs to do is go to Hawaii and stop and just let the last few years bubble up in his head and try to figure out three or four big things, not small things."

Obama's got to figure out how to fix the Affordable Care Act, should reach out to Republicans and should develop "large visionary goals" for the remainder of his term "so we could have a State of the Union that has real meaning," Gingrich said.

"For all their tactical brilliance, the Democrats have huge, strategic, structural problems, and you see it now, for example, with people under 24 where he [Obama] is just losing ground every week," Gingrich said. "People hire presidents, in the end, to make things work, and if they don't make things work then their party takes a beating because, in the end, the party goes down with them."



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Subject: A rare film from 1932...could this happen now?  This made me cry

FANTASTIC NEWS VIDEO: 1932 - young Patton, young Eisenhower, young MacArthur, Pres Hoover, Walter Winchell reporting. I don't recall this from any history classes.

Do you think the military, acting on orders from a broken federal gov't, won't march against its own?? Hard to believe this happened 80 years ago.
 

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