Michele Bachmann: Husband Received $137,000 in Medicaid Funds

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2011-06-29 23:25:46 UTC

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<H1 class=3Dtitle><FONT size=3D3>Michele Bachmann: Husband Received $137,0=
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<P>Fresh from our "Hypocrisy" file, MSNBC is reporting that Marcus
Bachmann, the husband of Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn) has been
collecting annual Medicaid payments totaling over $137,000 for the
treatment of patients since 2005, according to new figures obtained by
NBC News. </P>
<P>The previously unreported payments are on top of the $24,000 in
federal and state funds that Bachmann & Associates, the clinic
founded by Marcus Bachmann, a clinical therapist, received in recent
years under a state grant to train its employees, state records show.
The figures were provided to NBC News in response to a Freedom of
Information request.</P>
<P>The clinic offers "quality Christian counseling." </P>
<P>The $161,000 in payments from the Minnesota Department of Human
Services to her husband's clinic appear to contradict some of Michelle
Bachmann's public accounts this week when she was first asked about the
extent to which her family has benefited from government aid. Contacted
this afternoon, Alice Stewart, a spokeswoman for Bachmann, said the
congresswoman was doing campaign events and was not immediately
available for comment.</P>
<P>Questions about the Bachmann family's receipt of government funds
arose this week after a Los Angeles Times story reported that
a family farm in which Michelle Bachmann is a partner had received
nearly $260,000 in federal farm subsidies.</P>
<P>When asked by anchor Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday" about the
story's assertion that her husband's counseling clinic had also gotten
federal and state funds, Bachmann replied that it was "one-time training
money that came from the federal government. And it certainly didn't
help our clinic." She even denied that she and her husband got the
money, although NBC found that they been receiving the funds for six
years.</P>
<P>That doesn't sound like one-time to us. This sounds like 2012 GOP
Presidential contender Michele Bachmann is <A
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">making
stuff up</A> to justify her hypocritical loathing of government funding,
while in fact, receiving government funding. It appears that the
Bachmanns seek government funding where they can get it i.e. a farm and
a clinic. We're not mad at them for making use of government funding,
just mad that her platform blasts the government for unnecessary
spending and those who make use of those services. We get it - she
misspoke again. We also get that her platform means no funding for the
rest of us, just for the Bachmanns. Glad we cleared that up.</P>
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beegTEETS

2011-07-23 13:40:22 UTC

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TERRORIST ATTACKS IN NORWAY

**** UPDATE ****

Norwegian media identified the suspect as Anders Behring Breivik, "a
right-wing Christian fundamentalist."

A right-wing Christian fundamentalist.

Say, isn't the U.S. House of Representatives comprised mostly of this
type?

Mich, -- er -- Michele Bachmann comes readily to mind, among many
others.

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"Norway attacks: Police search farm for clues after shooting,
explosion leave 91 dead"

By Michael Birnbaum
Updated: Saturday, July 23, 2011, 7:55 AM

POLICE WERE SEARCHING a remote farm that was the most recent home of
the man suspected of twin attacks on Norway that killed at least 91
people, Norwegian police said Saturday.

They charged a 32-year-old Norwegian man with planting explosives in
central Oslo on Friday and a shooting spree on an isolated island
hours later, in what added up to the largest attack on Norway since
World War II. The death toll rose dramatically overnight and appeared
likely to continue to rise, as authorities searched for victims on the
island northwest of Oslo.

“What we know is that he is right wing and he is Christian
fundamentalist,” deputy police chief Roger Andresen said Saturday
morning at a televised news conference. “We have not been able to link
him up to an anti-Islamic group.” He said that the suspect had not
been arrested before, and that police were unsure if he had acted
alone.

“We find him responsible for both of the attacks,” Andresen said. “At
the moment we have no other people to arrest.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/norways-capital-shaken-by-...
posted pictures of the blond and blue-eyed Norwegian. A security
official speaking on the condition of anonymity because the official
was not allowed to release the name publicly said that the name was
correct.

A Twitter account with Breivik’s name and photo has a single post,
from July 17: “One person with a belief is equal to the force of 100
000 who have only interests,” slightly misquoting British philosopher
John Stuart Mill. A Facebook account linked to Breivik cites his
favorite books as John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty, Franz Kafka’s The
Trial, and George Orwell’s 1984, among others. Another interest is
hunting. It was not possible to confirm if the Twitter and Facebook
accounts and posts belonged to the suspect in the shooting.

The Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang, citing a spokeswoman for
agricultural material supplier Felleskjopet, reported that the suspect
bought 6 tons of artificial fertilizer — which is highly explosive —
some 10 weeks before the attack. Police were alerted to the purchase
only after it emerged the man was suspected of the deadly attacks, the
Associated Press reported, quoting the newspaper.

The Norwegian VG newspaper reported that police had blocked off a farm
in Asta, 100 miles north of Oslo, and were searching it, and Norwegian
media speculated that the farm may have been the source of explosives
used in the attack on Oslo, which blew out almost every window in the
17-story building that houses the prime minister’s office and severely
damaged several other nearby buildings in the government district of
Oslo.

Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg told reporters that the
attacks were “like a nightmare.”

He said that the youth conference was “my youth paradise. And
yesterday it was turned into hell.”

Oslo police said that the shooting spree on the island lasted
approximately 30 to 45 minutes before police arrived on the scene,
according to Norwegian media, but witnesses said that it was more like
an hour. A growing chorus of critics is questioning what took so long
for police to take control of the situation.

The blast struck around 3:30 p.m. local time near the government
building in Oslo, blowing out windows and setting off a billowing fire
at the nearby oil ministry. The prime minister was not in his office
at the time.

Two hours later, a man dressed in a police uniform opened fire on
Utoya Island, 25 miles northwest of the capital, where the ruling
Labor Party was holding an annual conference for young people, police
said.

Stoltenberg was rushed to a secret location in the aftermath of the
blast but spoke to reporters late Friday.

“I have a message to whoever attacked us. It’s a message from all of
Norway,” he said. “You will not destroy us. You will not destroy our
democracy.”

But many residents of Oslo said the attacks would probably have a deep
impact. For years, the most fortified building in town has been the
U.S. Embassy — the subject of eye-rolling from those who thought the
security measures were unnecessary.

“This is one of those events that will change everything,” Christopher
Wright, 35, of Oslo said by telephone. He was at a bakery a thousand
feet from the government buildings when the explosion happened.

Several analysts said a coordinated attack of such a caliber would
have required sophistication and preparation.

Chatter on online jihadist forums praising the attacks started almost
immediately afterward, terrorism analysts said, but claims of
responsibility were soon retracted.

The blast

It was not immediately clear what kind of explosives were used in the
bombing or where they had been placed, but a charred, damaged vehicle
stood on its side near the blast site. Huge clouds of smoke streamed
out of the oil ministry building for much of the afternoon, and
television stations broadcast images of crowds of office workers
running through the streets, with documents and broken glass littering
the ground.

Norwegian television broadcast images of people swimming away from the
island and of bodies lying on the shore. The small island is a third
of a mile from shore, with no bridge to connect it to the mainland.

The Norwegian news agency NTB said former prime minister Gro Harlem
Brundtland had been present at the conference Friday and that
Stoltenberg had been scheduled to speak there Saturday.

Norway saw an increased level of far-right extremism in 2010, a trend
that is expected to continue this year, according to a Norwegian
Police Security Service Annual Threat Assessment. The report also said
that “there are indications of contact” between far-right Norwegian
extremists and organized criminal groups, which could increase their
potential for violence.

Past threats

There have been threats against Norway in the past, but analysts have
long seen it as at less risk than other Scandinavian countries. The
most recent attack in the region was in Sweden in December, when
explosions hit Stockholm; in one of the blasts, a suspected bomber
killed himself and injured two other people in a central area of the
city. The suspect had made recordings condemning Sweden’s involvement
in Afghanistan.

Norway has also contributed to Afghanistan, and it has taken a major
role in the NATO-led effort to protect civilians in Libya, sending
several F-16 jets that had been carrying out 10 percent of the strikes
on the country since March, according to the Norwegian air force. The
aircraft are scheduled to return home at the end of the month.

This month, Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi threatened Europe with
suicide bombings as revenge for the NATO campaign.

Norway had also filed charges last week against an Iraqi-born cleric,
Mullah Krekar, a founder of the Kurdish militant group Ansar al-Islam,
for allegedly threatening Norwegian officials with death if he was
deported.

The U.S. ambassador to Norway, Barry White, said in a telephone
interview that the United States has offered to assist the Norwegian
government.

“It’s a tragedy,” he said. “One of the things this demonstrates is
there’s no place that is safe from a potential incident of this
nature. Norway is considered a fairly safe place, and it is, but this
demonstrates that things can happen anywhere.”

In Washington, President Obama expressed his condolences to Norway and
offered U.S. support as Norwegian authorities investigate the
incidents, which he described as terrorist attacks.

[Birnbaum reported from Berlin. Staff writer Greg Miller in Washington
and special correspondent Karla Adam in London contributed to this
report.]

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beegTEETS

2011-08-13 17:20:30 UTC

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Since Marcuth Bachmann is reputed to be gay, wonder what other
backdoor "funs" have cum his way?