Obamacare has new requirements on heathcare insurance. McDonald’s claims the burden may be to much, and that they may simply drop the insurance.

McDonald’s Corp. has warned federal regulators that it could drop its health insurance plan for nearly 30,000 hourly restaurant workers unless regulators waive a new requirement of the U.S. health overhaul.

The move is one of the clearest indications that new rules may disrupt workers’ health plans as the law ripples through the real world.

Trade groups representing restaurants and retailers say low-wage employers might halt their coverage if the government doesn’t loosen a requirement for “mini-med” plans, which offer limited benefits to some 1.4 million America

Rushed legislation will always result in unintended consequences.  Not letting a bill go before  public review , and Congressmen not reading the Bill but voting for it anyway is the surest way of legislating into law undesirable effects.

For a very short moment I believed Cindy Sheehan was just a sad woman that was trying to find meaning in losing her brave son.  Later I realized that she was one of the most stupid and hateful people on the earth, who stood against everything that her son believed.

Today she steps forward loudly in an attempt to prove she is a complete moron.

On the day before the 9th anniversary of the Sep. 11 terrorist attacks, Cindy Sheehan, the darling protester the media gave plenty of coverage to due to her opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, spoke to a crowd at All Souls Church in Manhattan, stating that she is a 9/11 truther and believes it was an inside job. “I am a 9/11 truther”, Sheehan said. “I do believe it was an inside job.”

She continued, “We just don’t know – I don’t know – how far inside it went. But, you know, I’m sure Dick Cheney had something to do with it.” Her statements were met with a standing ovation from the crowd.

She also claimed that Barack Obama is doing everything he can to “protect the criminals of the Bush regime.”

Sorry I don’t have the stomach for embedding it, but the video can be found here.

Officials are scrambling, wheeling and dealing  and dealing to pull off a fair election.  They are facing two obstacles. The most obvious obstacle to overcome is the loss of 10,000 voting machines that were destroyed in a spectacular warehouse fire.  The county seems on track to replacing more than 80% of the destroyed machines with loaners.

The county has put in an order for 3,100 voting machines from vendor Hart InterCivic. That’s as much as the vendor could produce on such short notice, County Clerk Beverly Kaufman has said. De Leon said other counties have pledged to lend Harris County an additional 1,637 machines.

The net effect is about 1.3 fewer machines per polling station. In addition, because of the fire, Kaufman is allowing voters to cast paper ballots at every polling place in efforts to prevent long lines on election day. She is also continuing to encourage people to vote early.

If enough voters go early the impact of the destroyed machines may not be that great.

The other issue concerning fair elections is the fraudulent registrations of nonexistant but presumably Democrat voters.

The group called for help and quickly got 30 donated computers and “tens of thousands of hours” of volunteer work. And then the questions started to arise.

“Vacant lots had several voters registered on them. An eight-bed halfway house had more than 40 voters registered at its address,” Engelbrecht said. “We then decided to look at who was registering the voters.”

Their work paid off. Two weeks ago the Harris County voter registrar took their work and the findings of his own investigation and handed them over to both the Texas secretary of state’s office and the Harris County district attorney.

Most of the findings focused on a group called Houston Votes, a voter registration group headed by Steve Caddle, who also works for the Service Employees International Union. Among the findings were that only 1,793 of the 25,000 registrations the group submitted appeared to be valid. The other registrations included one of a woman who registered six times in the same day; registrations of non-citizens; so many applications from one Houston Voters collector in one day that it was deemed to be beyond human capability; and 1,597 registrations that named the same person multiple times, often with different signatures.

Caddle told local newspapers that there “had been mistakes made,”

The report is availble as a PDF and has lots of examples of the suspicious registrations, hopefully the exposure of the fradulent registrations will be enough  to prevent the illegal votes.

When the Texas Lege meets in January they will be fighting over Voter ID. The Republicans now have solid proof that fraud is taking place in Texas and the voter/citizen should loudly demand that our election process be made more secure.  I noticed that I, as rapidly aproaching 60 year old, get asked for an ID to buy a beer at Intercontinental Airport. It isn’t unreasonable to ask for identification for something as important as an election.

Putting his Career and reputation at stake Christopher Coates, former chief of the Justice Department’s Voting Section,  agreed  against his bosses wishes  to tell Congress what he knows.  The Testimony isn’t expected to be good for Eric Holder and his Justice Department and as we predicted this is shaping up to be a huge scandal that just won’t go away for the Obama administration.

Christopher Coates, surprised the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights this week when he agreed to testify before it. Previously, the Justice Department prevented Coates from complying with a subpoena to testify before the commission, a commission spokeswoman said.

In a letter to the commission, which was not written on Justice Department stationary, Coates offered to testify, but did not say whether his testimony was sanctioned by the department. Nor did he indicate what he would say.

But former Justice Department attorney J. Christian Adams said he expects Coates to confirm what Adams testified in July.

Adams told CNN that Coates will testify “that there’s an open and pervasive hostility towards race-neutral enforcement of the voting rights laws, and that there were explicit instructions that certain laws are not going to be enforced.”

Coates further will testify that the case against the New Black Panther Party “was dismissed because of hostility towards race-neutral enforcement of the law, and that it was a solid case,” Adams said.

Glenn Reynold’s posts:

PARANOID? Reader John Mark Williams: “Does it seem just too big a coincidence that Stephen Colbert is testifying on Friday, the same day that Christopher Coates is scheduled to testify on the Black Panther case? Which testimony do you think the legacy media is going to sensationalize and focus on? Just seems too convenient to me.”

One has to wonder.