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My July fund-raising campaign to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary since I began Behind the Black is now over. I want to thank all those who so generously donated or subscribed, especially those who have become regular supporters. I can't do this without your help. I also find it increasingly hard to express how much your support means to me. God bless you all!

 

The donations during this year's campaign were sadly less than previous years, but for this I blame myself. I am tired of begging for money, and so I put up the campaign announcement at the start of the month but had no desire to update it weekly to encourage more donations, as I have done in past years. This lack of begging likely contributed to the drop in donations.

 

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Obamacare could leave 2 million families without insurance

Finding out what’s in it: Because of the way Obamacare is written, two million family members might not be able to get health insurance at affordable rates and will lose the insurance they presently have.

Essentially, the problem is this: Obamacare allows employers to offer insurance to their employees but not their families. However, because the employee has what Obamacare considers “affordable” health insurance in this situation, the employee cannot get any subsidies to pay for the cost of insurance for his or her spouse or children. Thus, the kids and spouse are left in the lurch.

But that’s okay. The Democrats and Obama care about you, even if the policies they force down our throats bankrupt us and ruin our lives. What matters is they care. And that of course means we must all blindly vote for them again and again and again until society falls apart (as it did in cities like Detroit).

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.


The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
 

"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

One comment

  • Cotour

    Unrelated but related:

    And here in will lie the conundrum of the president being forced to take action related to this ISIS situation.
    (I do not believe that he is doing any of this because HE feels the needs to, it is a forced action driven by politics)

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/rift-widens-between-obama-us-military-over-strategy-to-fight-islamic-state/2014/09/18/ebdb422e-3f5c-11e4-b03f-de718edeb92f_story.html

    He will try to play it safe (read vote present) and micro manage from the White House, being “smarter” than the people who really know how to get done what needs to be done. He has no other philosophy other than his Marxist / Alynski community organizing philosophy backing him up and he will tend to attempt to ride the razors edge with the echos of Viet Nam ringing in his 60’s radical head. This may cause a psychic split for our president and a disaster for all involved at the maximum or in the end just a BS PR operation at the minimum. I say that all of this talk is just telegraphing our moves to our enemy, you can decide whether it is conscious or unconscious.

    To help you decide whether the telegraphing is conscious or not I will ask this question to attempt to establish motivation: Why is Major Hassan’s murderous attack classified as a “work place violence incident” and not an act by a traitor and Jihadi that yelled “Alah Akbar” as he shot his victims? And a second question: Why is Major Hassan still drawing breath? And this is also a good question: Even if you disagreed with how we got to Iraq, was it a good idea to withdraw our force from the still unstable country and again telegraph to our enemy’s the date certain that we would be leaving? We all understand that the chaos that is unraveling the Middle East at the moment is a direct result of this presidents idealized actions related to the with drawl of force from the area. “ISIS is the JV league”? This was his assessment just a few weeks ago.

    I surmise that because the president is an “intellectual” he believes that all of this talk and explanation is healthy and good, the people need to know everything that we are about to do (and our enemy’s). Personally when someone talks too much in such a stress situation it is a sign of weakness. IMO a president in instances such as this ISIS one is hired to asses what needs to be done to ensure America’s power, sovereignty and treasure, take the action secretly with Congress’s consent (or not) that is required and then inform the public what was done after the fact, more or less. This president reacts he does not act in these kinds of circumstances.

    There is nothing more dangerous than a weak man pretending to be strong.

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