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herding cats's JournalPhotos show border militias moving across Texas
It's a slide show, so you'll have to go to the article to view the pictures if you're interested. I will say I found photo #16 was telling of the mindset of the idiots there.
This one is mild compared to some of them.
Members of the militia groups, who say they have 10 active "teams" along the state's southern border, are seen at campsites, walking along the Rio Grande River, pointing rifles and pistols out of frame and flipping off the camera in the photos obtained by the San Antonio Express-News.
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In an interview with the Express-News, Chris Davis, commander of the militia's "Operation Secure Our Border: Laredo Sector", who is seen in some of the photos, said members would secure the border in a "legal and lawful manner."
However, in a since-deleted 21-minute YouTube video of Davis, he said: "How? You see an illegal. You point your gun dead at him, right between his eyes, and you say, 'Get back across the border or you will be shot.'"
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Photos-show-border-militias-moving-across-Texas-5647487.php#photo-6643827
Maybe we'll get lucky and the heat will force them back to their air conditioned home "bases" before they hurt someone.
Libya is on fire, literally.
"Environmental disaster" feared after rocket lights second oil depot on fire in Tripoli amid militia clashes.
A fire from fuel tanks near Tripoli's international airport that has been ignited by rocket attacks is out of control as clashes between rival militias have resumed in the area, the National Oil Company says.
Six million litres of fuel were set ablaze by a rocket late on Sunday, with the second depot hit on Monday.
"It is out of control. The second tank has been hit and the firefighters have withdrawn from the site as the fighting has resumed in the area", National Oil Company spokesman Mohamed Al-Harrai told Reuters on Monday.
"The situation is very dangerous after a second fire broke out at another petroleum depot," the government said, warning of a "disaster with unforeseeable consequences".
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/07/libya-seeks-help-battle-oil-tanker-blaze-201472884020151782.html
North Carolina GOPer: Party Will Lose In 2014 Over Not Expanding Medicaid
Mayor Adam O'Neal places at least some of the blame for the closure of his town's hospital on the state's failure to expand Medicaid. He is making a 273 mile trek on foot from North Carolina to Washington, D.C. to call attention to the hospital's closure, Blue Virginia reported.
Vidant Health purchased the Pungo District Hospital in 2011, but then ended up closing the facility, which had been designated a critical care center.
"We’ve had our health care stolen,” O'Neal said during a speech in Woodbridge, Va. on Saturday, adding that Vidant makes millions each year even though it's a non-profit. "It’s immoral for a company to take health care away from people and keep your non-profit designation."
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/gop-mayor-pushing-medicaid-expansion
Wikipedia blocks 'disruptive' page edits from US Congress
The 10-day block comes after anonymous changes were made to entries on politicians and businesses, as well as events like the Kennedy assassination.
The biography of former US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld was edited to say that he was an "alien lizard".
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But he said that the @congressedits Twitter feed may have been counter-productive.
"There is a belief from some of the [Wikipedia] community that it only provoked someone - some prankster there in the office - to have an audience now for the pranks, and actually encouraged them rather than discouraged them."
He added: "Maybe someone at the House of Representatives better think about their IT staff - they might be hunting them down this very moment."
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28481876
Rumsfeld = Alien lizard made laugh!
Scalia And Company May Have Already Shown Their Hand On Obamacare Subsidies
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Gluck referenced three sections of the 2012 conservative dissent.
Congress provided a backup scheme; if a State declines to participate in the operation of an exchange, the Federal Government will step in and operate an exchange in that State.
Obamacare advocates and drafters have indeed argued that the federal exchange was intended as a back-up plan, rather than the punitive measure that those bringing the most recent lawsuit have alleged.
In the absence of federal subsidies to purchasers, insurance companies will have little incentive to sell insurance on the exchanges. … That system of incentives collapses if the federal subsidies are invalidated.
The federal judges who invalidated tax credits through HealthCare.gov said the law could continue operating even without the subsidies. The justices appear to disagree here.
By 2019, 20 million of the 24 million people who will obtain insurance through an exchange are expected to receive an average federal subsidy of $6,460 per person.
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/scalia-supreme-court-obamacare-halbig
Of course this is nothing but educated speculation. I still thought it was interesting enough warrant reading.
Check out this fun photobomb!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/commonwealthgames/10988380/Commonwealth-Games-The-Queen-photobombs-Australia-hockeys-Jayde-Taylors-selfie.html
Quite a day for those girls all around.
Separate U.S. appeals court upholds subsidies under Obama health law
Source: Reuters
Contrary to the D.C. Circuit decision today, the 4th Circuit upholds the Obamacare federal exchange subsidy. Maybe the Obama admin knew about the opinion, which would explain why it was so confident subsidies would flow pending court cases.
This all but guarantees the Supreme Court will take the case since there is a split in the Circuits.
From the opinion intro (emphasis added):
The plaintiffs-appellants bring this suit challenging the validity of an Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) final rule implementing the premium tax credit provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the “ACA” or “Act”). The final rule interprets the ACA as authorizing the IRS to grant tax credits to individuals who purchase health insurance on both state-run insurance “Exchanges” and federally-facilitated “Exchanges” created and operated by the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”). The plaintiffs contend that the IRS’s interpretation is contrary to the language of the statute, which, they assert, authorizes tax credits only for individuals who purchase insurance on state-run Exchanges. For reasons explained below, we find that the applicable statutory language is ambiguous and subject to multiple interpretations. Applying deference to the IRS’s determination, however, we uphold the rule as a permissible exercise of the agency’s discretion. We thus affirm the judgment of the district court.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/22/usa-court-obamacare-fourthcircuit-idUSL2N0PX1CS20140722
It looks like the next stop is the SC.
I'll update with more shortly. The full opinion is at the above link.
In a dramatic split decision, two federal appeals court panels on Tuesday disagreed on whether billions of dollars of government subsidies that helped 4.7 million people buy insurance on HealthCare.gov are lega,
A panel of federal appeals court that covers Washington. D.C., ruled in a 2-1 decision that the subsidies are illegal. But about two hours later, the federal Fourth Circuit appeals court's own panel hearing a similar challenge in a 3-0 ruling said the subsidies are legal.
The split could lead to the US Supreme Court taking up the issue soon.
Earlier Tuesday, in the DC circuit , the judicial panel said such subsidies can be granted only to people who bought insurance in an Obamacare exchange run by an individual state or the District of Columbia—not on the federally run exchange HealthCare.gov.
The ruling relied on a close reading of language in the Affordable Care Act.
"Section 36B plainly makes subsidies available in the Exchanges established by states," wrote Senior Circuit Judge Raymond Randolph, who was joined by Judge Thomas Griffith in the majority decision on the case known as Halbig v. Burwell.
"We reach this conclusion, frankly, with reluctance. At least until states that wish to can set up their own Exchanges, our ruling will likely have significant consequences both for millions of individuals receiving tax credits through federal Exchanges and for health insurance markets more broadly."
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101819065
A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington ruled Tuesday that subsidies may not be offered in the federal health exchange. The decision overturned a lower court ruling. Hours later the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals offered its own decision, which upholds the Obama administration's arguments that subsidies can be applied in the federal exchange.
You can read the U.S. Appeals Court for the District of Columbia's decision here, and the decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit here.
Check back as we continue to update our summary of the day's coverage.
http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Daily-Reports/2014/July/22/halbig-decision.aspx
Melbourne-bound AIDS 2014 delegates among those on MH17 flight
Source: Star Observer
REPORTS have emerged that among the passengers aboard the downed Malaysian Airlines MH17 flight in Ukraine were delegates, researchers and advocates bound for the AIDS 2014 conference in Melbourne.
Flight MH17 was shot down in separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine this morning, claiming the lives of 298 passengers and crew. Authorities have said 27 Australians were on board.
Since the news broke, there has been a flurry of conflicting reports — mostly on social media — that up to 108 of those on board the flight were bound for Melbourne, via Kuala Lumpur, for the 20th International AIDS Conference which begins on Sunday.
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has confirmed that a number of people on board the flight were travelling to Melbourne for the conference, but an exact figure has not yet been confirmed at the time of writing.
Read more: http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/local-news/melbourne-bound-aids-2014-delegates-among-those-on-mh17-flight/125312
This is very sad news, Joep Lange was an amazing man who will be dearly missed. We lost one of our good ones today.
Several of the passengers aboard the Malaysian Airlines flight that crashed in eastern Ukraine on Thursday were World Health Organization staffers heading to a conference on AIDS research in Australia, the Guardian reported.
Glenn Thomas, a spokesperson for WHO's Global TB Program, was among the victims, according to a fellow staffer. Global TB Program Coordinator Haileyesus Getahun shared the news via Twitter.
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The International AIDS Conference is taking place in Melbourne this weekend. The International AIDS Society, which organized the event, released a statement following the tragic news:
The International AIDS Society (IAS) today expresses its sincere sadness at receiving news that a number of colleagues and friends en route to attend the 20th International AIDS Conference taking place in Melbourne, Australia, were on board the Malaysian Airlines MH17 flight that has crashed over Ukraine earlier today.
At this incredibly sad and sensitive time the IAS stands with our international family and sends condolences to the loved ones of those who have been lost to this tragedy.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/17/who-malaysia-plane-crash-victims-aids-_n_5597547.html
As many as 108 on board were AIDS activist colleagues and family members.
It is believed that delegates to the 20th International AIDS Conference, due to begin on Sunday, will be informed today that 108 of their colleagues and family members died on MH17.
Among those thought to have been killed was prominent Dutch researcher Joep Lange, a former president of the International Aids Society.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/delegates-to-melbourne-aids-summit-on-doomed-flight-mh17/story-e6frg6nf-1226993197572?nk=1e1ce3abedbe9c88eaa5d21a3bdfeb5e
The European head of Malaysia Airlines has announced nationalities of some of the passengers
Among the other nationalities on board were 154 Dutch, 27 Australians, 23 Malaysians, 11 Indonesians, six Britons, four Germans, four Belgians, three from the Philippines and one Canadian.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/17/malaysia-airlines-plane-crashes-ukraine-live#block-53c83451e4b01dcef5b4b592
No mention of Americans yet.
May they all RIP. 
Ariz. Protestors Mistakenly Blockade YMCA Bus Instead Of Migrants
It reads like satire but it really happened.
ORACLE, Ariz. (AP) — Protesters waved "Return to Sender" signs, shoved a group of mariachi musicians and waited for a bus of immigrant children that the local sheriff told them would arrive. At one point, they briefly halted a bus before realizing it was carrying children from a YMCA.
The bus of Central American children never arrived, ending a day of protest in a small Arizona town that drew more than 100 people on both sides of the immigration debate.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/az-protestors-blockade-ymca-bus
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