Obama G-7 Germany

"States should never have taken up healthcare law" appears to be the big takeaway from the speech delivered in Germany.

I heard portions of this speech. It ran on several channels at once, an important speech too covering several important issues and delivered without teleprompter. Perhaps you should watch it in full listen carefully and be fully informed then come back and tell me your opinions of what he said and in that manner I can become informed too without listening.

That bit up there came at the end during q&a. In my opinion that was not the most significant part of his answer to that question, even though his answer came to me in pieces. Struggling with my own resistance to imperious stretched/clipped speech pattern I clicked off at "the proof that Obamacare is working is the absence of all those terrible catastrophes that were supposed to happen." While all I've read about is insurance companies projecting significant and stultifying rate increases discouraging healthy signups further. Young healthy people uninvolved in politics would rather pay penalty. (But then I only bother with conservative political sites, the others are insane) And who will healthy people blame for being made to pay penalty for not buying insurance that Obama and party required? I'm only guessing, and my guess is based on knowing they're not as stupid as commonly described. Not recognizing that his home state Hawaii cannot afford its own service and wasted half a billion in federal taxpayer's money trying seemed to me more significant than him saying perhaps the Supreme Court should reject the challenge to his healthcare law, and the japes on Twitter that follow in torrent.

More significant than him stating flatly that he does not have a plan for defeating ISIS. The body language speaks to me louder and much more clearly than his singsong stretched/clipped pattern. That awkward moment of Obama stuck sitting on a bench next to Iraqi Prime Minister says everything. He couldn't boyishly twist his entire body toward and around the female Europeron and away from the Prime Minister who came up to sit right there next to him any more than he does. Then standing up makes sure to complete a closed circle turning from and shutting out the little person dressed in brown. Imagine yourself doing that. And why.

The quarter-turn. It is a technique that was actually taught to me and with derisive mocking laughter and a bit high on cocktails about how to cut off conversation in a crowd by simply turning away from it distracted by more interesting conversation and smiling while you do it. And the guy's left, "I think I'll just get another drink" But he can't because he's Muslim.

Obama Court Should Not Have Accepted the Obamacare Challenge Huffington Post.
Europe Will Continue Sanctions Against Russia CNN.
Obama, Reviewing Strategies for Training Iraqi Troops WSJ.
Obama, No Complete Strategy yet on Training Iraqi Troops, CNN

This post is NOT about UFO’s, rather, about the hope that "someday everybody will come together and make nice"

I came across this video yesterday and I was tempted to post it. I say tempted because UFO is sort of a taboo subject among us enlighten few. You know, we are not looking for titillation, we are very serious people. (If you want that kind of thing you can contribute to some other blog ;-) ---> that usually means I'm kidding.

So I thought, how Am I going to post this and get away with it?

Then it dawn on me, like a turning signal on a messenger bike; I know what to do. I’ll say the post is about something else. Body language, look over here, this post is NOT about UFO’s.

Well, it is about UFO's, truth be told, but it is also about Bill Clinton appearing like he is hiding, concealing something.  I did not have sexual relations… hold it; I was going off on a tangent there. That was close call.  

Back to the subject at hand.

The guy, who put the video together, sounds like he knows what he is talking about, I learned a lot, although he claims not to be a body language expert.  I sat through the whole video, not even pausing to go to the bathroom, as I do during a Netflix.

Please watch the video and share what you think.