Obamacare disillusionment as selected from Twitter

@andersoncooper Rube.

— Bruce Thompson (@BruceThompson51) October 30, 2013

FACT: unintended consequences are unintended. MT @vj44 FACT: Nothing in #Obamacare forces people out of their health plans.

— Grave-id Boo-rge (@iowahawkblog) October 29, 2013

So far, the site has cost about $100,000 per line of code. That's pretty normal, right?

— HealthCareDotGov (@HealthDotGov) November 1, 2013

Please help us. If we don't get this site running, we'll get the worst punishment a government employee can get: Time off with pay.

— HealthCareDotGov (@HealthDotGov) October 31, 2013

If you like your candy, you can keep your candy. I'm sorry, your current bag plan has too many Snickers. *snatch* #Candycare

— Grave-id Boo-rge (@iowahawkblog) October 31, 2013

If you like your cable package, you can keep it. PERIOD. Ooh, I see you don't have mandatory Oprah. That'll be $8k/month. #Obamacable

— Grave-id Boo-rge (@iowahawkblog) October 29, 2013

Is Evil Rational? -- Prager University

Overstatement does not help one's cause--quite the opposite!

Badgers in Britain are being culled because of fears that they are spreading disease to cattle. Animal activists disagree and have been mounting an online campaign against the cull. All fine and well. But overselling the cause by a too-strong analogy...well, that's worse than 9/11!

My campaign to save the badgers? It's like the fight to end slavery @DrBrianMay http://t.co/LzvTuISIph

— BrianMayCom (@brianmaycom) October 18, 2013

Report: SEALS hit Al-Shabab in Somalia, kill leader

An American Navy Seal team carried out a raid on a southern Somalian coastal town on Saturday, targeting a senior leader of the militant al-Shabaab group, which was behind last month's Kenyan mall shootings.

The New York Times quoted a US security official as saying that the target was believed to have been killed, although that had not yet been confirmed.

The raid hit a two-storey house close to the beach in the town of Barawe, an al-Shabaab stronghold, in the lower Shabelle region, some 150 miles south of Mogadishu. It is the same town where US navy commandos killed a senior al-Qaida member four years ago.

Good! We need a win against these vipers. It's especially fitting that it occurs on the 20th anniversary of the Black Hawk Down battle, when the people we came to rescue from famine dragged our dead soldiers through the streets. Forty-eight hour rule and everything, but if we've managed to hit the slithering jihadist Islamist filth hard and accurately, that's huge. And I hope the Kenyans are paying attention, as they were embarrassed to have their soldiers exposed as mere looting bullyboys.

I approve getting back pay for the SEAL team, once the shutdown is over!