The morning after, now what?

The Obama administration secretly shipped $400 million in cash to Iran around the time that the country released four American prisoners, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

The money - which consisted mainly of Euros, Swiss francs and other foreign currencies - was airlifted to Iran in an unmarked cargo plane in January.
 
President Obama on Wednesday cut short the sentences of 214 federal inmates, including 67 life sentences, in what the White House called the largest batch of commutations on a single day in more than a century.

All told, Obama has commuted 562 sentences during his presidency -- more than the past nine presidents combined, the White House said. Almost 200 of those who have benefited were serving life sentences.


:banghead:
 

President Obama has refused so far to survey the Louisiana flood disaster, but he did let state and local officials know that he’s watching to make sure they don’t engage in racial discrimination.

In a 16-page guidance issued Tuesday, the Obama administration, led by the Justice Department, warned Louisiana recipients of federal disaster assistance against engaging in “unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin (including limited English proficiency).”

The guidance’s frameworks “highlight the importance of complying with nondiscrimination requirements of civil rights statutes, addressing the needs of the whole community, and ensuring equal opportunity to access recovery efforts.”

Needless to say, some Louisiana residents were offended.

Then Obama went golfing.
 
President Obama Grants 111 Additional Commutations, the Most Commutations Granted in a Single Month

Today’s 111 commutation grants underscore the President’s commitment to using his clemency authority to provide a second chance to deserving individuals. To date, President Obama has granted 673 commutations: more commutations than the previous ten presidents combined. More than one-third of the President’s commutation recipients, or 232 individuals, were serving life sentences.
 
All joking aside;

This stuff going on in Aleppo just makes me sick. We had supposedly worked hard to wring out a cease fire, and waited a few days to make sure it would hold. Then, just as aide workers were sending in the first humanitarian supplies, we bomb Syrian troops and kill over 100 of them? So then the Syrians start bombing the crap out of Aleppo again, including completely destroying the humanitarian supply convoy.

What moron of ours ordered that strike? Heads should roll! If it was our Commander in Chief, he should be impeached immediately. Now the civilians in Aleppo are getting slaughtered again.
 

Those cheap Obamacare plans are getting even more expensive.


Deductibles for individuals enrolled in the lowest-priced Obamacare health plans will average more than $6,000 in 2017, the first time that threshold has been cracked in the three years that Affordable Care Act marketplaces have been in business, a new analysis finds.

Families enrolled in bronze plans will have average deductibles of $12,393, according to the study by the consumer insurance comparison site HealthPocket.



A deductible is the amount of money someone must personally pay out of pocket for health services before insurance covers the remaining cost.

HealthPocket also found that that average premiums, or monthly payments, for bronze plans nationwide will increase 21 percent next year for people who earn too much to qualify for Obamacare subsidies. A 40-year-old unsubsidized bronze plan customer would pay $350.23 each month for their health coverage, compared to $289.88 per month this year.

That's more than three times the 6 percent increase in average deductibles for bronze plans in 2017.

And deductibles for the second-least-expensive types of plans, silver plans, will average $3,572 for individuals next year, about 15 percent more than this year's average deductible for silver plans, the study found

Deductibles for families covered by silver plans are up by the same amount, for an average of $7,474 next year.


http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/26/obam...ise-for-2017-along-with-monthly-premiums.html
 
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