Maybe you should read about a cancer victim who has effectively had their access taken away by Obamacare.
Can't stand for people to learn the REAL impact of Obamacare, can you?
Her private insurance company stopped offering coverage, which they could have done at any time regardless of the ACA, so now she has to choose from the remaining companies/plans offered. I feel for her, but she would have probably hit this wall with her previous company at some time anyway, regardless of the ACA. Private insurance companies are notorious for pulling out, dropping coverage or raising plan prices - causing healthy people to switch plans and squeezing the remaining sick people who, until the ACA, couldn't switch due to pre-existing conditions.
The impact of the ACA is that millions of people can now get effective, affordable insurance - perhaps, in some cases, elsewhere. The ACA didn't force her company to drop out, they simply chose to, which, as private companies, they can do anytime.
Can't stand to get REAL information from someone other than Rupert Murdoch, can you?
Well... They almost stopped me from traveling once because I asked a question about something. The guy then said, "do you want to travel today?" I said, "yes." He said, "then be quiet." If I had been single and not traveling with others, I might have protested, but instead I played "good sheep."
How long until it's not just some crazy guy off his meds and a normal person with a legitimate grievance...like a loved one being denied care under Obamacare?
Not as long until some unformed idiot poses a question like that.
You do know that "Obamacare" isn't an insurance plan or insurance company - right? You do know that the ACA only specifies *minimum* levels that all insurance plans must provide - right? You do know that all those plans are offered by private insurance companies - right? You do know that *private* insurance companies deny care all the fucking time, except now, under the ACA, they have fewer avenues to do so (no more: life-time limits or denials based on pre-existing conditions - before or after the fact) - right?
Except, in this case, Tea Party rally members complaining about the evils of Government from their Medicare paid-for motorized scooters - as reported by Rolling Stone in (The Truth About the Tea Party) - seems a bit disingenuous.
Scanning the thousands of hopped-up faces in the crowd, I am immediately struck by two things. One is that there isn't a single black person here. The other is the truly awesome quantity of medical hardware: Seemingly every third person in the place is sucking oxygen from a tank or propping their giant atrophied glutes on motorized wheelchair-scooters. As Palin launches into her Ronald Reagan impression — "Government's not the solution! Government's the problem!" — the person sitting next to me leans over and explains.
"The scooters are because of Medicare," he whispers helpfully. "They have these commercials down here: 'You won't even have to pay for your scooter! Medicare will pay!' Practically everyone in Kentucky has one."
A hall full of elderly white people in Medicare-paid scooters, railing against government spending and imagining themselves revolutionaries as they cheer on the vice-presidential puppet hand-picked by the GOP establishment. If there exists a better snapshot of everything the Tea Party represents, I can't imagine it.
Compared to the governors of other U.S. states, the governorship of Texas is a fairly weak office. The Lieutenant Governor of Texas, who presides over the state Senate, is considered a more powerful political figure, being able to exercise greater personal prerogatives.
And, according to this reference, the Texas legislature only meets every two years for 140 days, so how fucking busy could the Governor actually be, except for executing people and fund raising.
And, as far as Texas itself goes, according to The Texas Observer, The Texas Legislative Group produced a study saying:
How’s Texas doing? Not so great: The state ranks 50th in high school graduation rate, first in amount of carbon emissions, first in hazardous waste produced, last in voter turnout, first in percentage of people without health insurance, and second in percentage of uninsured kids.
So, even ignoring their tendency to push Creationism over Science in their school curriculum, Texas is certainly a big state, but "major" is questionable - unless you mean major failure... But, if that's what the people want... you can't argue with stupid.
neither Obama nor anyone in his immediate circle has any experience as a, well, Executive... The opposition were crying about this point in 2008 — Obama never ran anything (except for a small failed charity)
The same argument could be made about many (most?) people, including George W Bush. Here's a 1999 CNN article about Bush as Businessman that concludes with:
So Bush the businessman did prosper. But not by his bootstraps -- with help from wealthy friends and taxpayer subsidies.
In many cases, his companies, co-investors and taxpayers came out much worse for working with him.
should we be spending billions to... 1) work toward reducing poverty in our nation?
2) make a faster plane to bomb the shit out of someone faster in a war that hasn't started yet?
Well... Our "war on poverty" obviously needs some help, so can't we simply use the SR-72 to bomb *our* poor people faster?
The phrases "Obama voting" and "welfare recipient" might mot be as accurate as you think.
You might find this interesting. From Slate.com (and others):
The top ten states that got the most back in federal benefits (9/10 are Red states): New Mexico (Blue), Mississippi, Alaska, Louisiana, W. Virginia, N. Dakota, Alabama, S. Dakota, Virginia, Kentucky.
The bottom 10 states - that give more than they receive in federal benefits (all Blue states): New Jersey, Nevada, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Illinois, Delaware, California, New York, Colorado.
In addition: About the assumptions surrounding Mitt Romney’s now infamous comments about the indolent “47 percent” of Americans who regard themselves as victims and therefore pay no taxes. As the American Conservative magazinepointed out recently, nine of those 10 states are in the Old Confederacy.
Things may have been different if they'd just come out with their side of the story on why solar is bad.
Utilizing Solar energy may have issues, but I'd be hard pressed to describe it as "bad" - unless you're a fossil-fuel company. Perhaps, I'm misinformed, but all I can imagine is Mr. Mackey from South Park saying, "Solar energy is bad, m'kay."
Imagine the nerve of suggesting that people might not only live off the grid, they could invest their money in a means of production and then sell that product!
In other words, people with excess solar capacity are small-business owners.
To be fair, Republicans fully support small-business owners, unless they interfere with big business, or Conservative moral/social agendas, or a politician's chances of getting re-elected, or those people have anything to do with minorities, women, reproductive rights, sexual orientation... Wait, what was I talking about again?
The film takes place in a futuristic world overrun by vampires. A vampiric corporation sets out to capture and farm the remaining humans while researching a blood substitute. Lead vampire hematologist Edward Dalton's (Ethan Hawke) work is interrupted by human survivors led by former vampire "Elvis" (Willem Dafoe), who has a cure that can save the human species.
Tom has been at the forefront of some of the very dramatic changes that we've seen in the way we communicate and how we live our lives.
Taking inspiration from Jon Stewart's commentary last night about the recent trend in cable news (namely CNN) anchor questions:
I'll ask, "Is this a good thing or bad thing?"
I agree with your points. With regard to the government's one-sided interpretation of evidence, I would tend to favor incompetence over evil intentions - obviously not necessarily better, but distinctively different.
My question remains though. * If * someone turns their back on what another has to offer, should the offer remain?
If an American citizen becomes an (especially, overseas) enemy combatant against the US (which, I would argue, equates to treason or relinquishing US citizenship - but that can be a separate argument), and effectively gives up all their responsibilities to the US, should they still be afforded all their rights as a US citizen?
The orange colour of the old bulbs is actually known to inhibit night vision, so white LEDs are safer.
My understanding is that white light destroys (photobleaches) the rhodopsin/visual purple in the eye, inhibiting night vision, which is why ships and subs use red (or simply non-white) lights at night. Anyone out there with more specific info and/or why one color is better than another for night vision preservation?
Are our "inalienable" rights suddenly "alienable" because we're overseas?
If someone turns their back on what another has to offer, should the offer remain? Besides, I'm pretty sure our "inalienable" rights don't include a trial; that is granted by the Constitution/Bill of Rights... If you mean "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" - as stated in the Declaration of Independence - then I would ask when do those rights of the one supersede those same rights of the many?
It may be arguable whether killing overseas Americans acting with enemy combatants is wrong/acceptable, but I won't weep for them. They made their choice, and have to live and/or die by the consequences - live/die by the sword. (You know, that "personal responsibility" stuff Conservatives are always ranting about.)
Were? You think things are better? Our government is executing Americans overseas without a trial(even an unfair one) now.
There's a lesson to be learned from this exchange in the movie Unforgiven and, think what you will of me, I don't believe these overseas Americans of which you speak have learned it:
Little Bill Daggett: Well, sir, you are a cowardly son of a bitch! You just shot an unarmed man!
Will Munny: Well, he should have armed himself if he's going to decorate his saloon with my friend.
What happens when a person designs and builds a series of parts that are separately useful as something other than a "gun", but when combined in the right way does build a functioning "gun"?
Their soon-to-be-published paper found that tapping the bottle (or shooting it with a laser) causes a series of compression and expansion waves, that generate unstable buoyant plumes, quickly turning most of the liquid into foam.
Just one more reason sharks are lousy drinking buddies.
The results offer the possibility that buried catastrophe victims not carrying such tags might still be located by TWIPR
... Search and Rescue teams need to switch from using dogs to dolphins - duh.
Think of how many more people could be quickly found in building rubble or IEDs found by battlefield personnel if the teams were using search dolphins. The military could even equip them with lasers to support combat operations with, unlike sharks, no need for night-vision goggles. Think of the real-world applications people.
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...and not stab humans.
Tell that to Roberto:
"I need to stab someone! Where's my stabbing knife?!"
--Roberto
Somebody is a bit touchy today, aren't we?
Maybe you should read about a cancer victim who has effectively had their access taken away by Obamacare.
Can't stand for people to learn the REAL impact of Obamacare, can you?
Her private insurance company stopped offering coverage, which they could have done at any time regardless of the ACA, so now she has to choose from the remaining companies/plans offered. I feel for her, but she would have probably hit this wall with her previous company at some time anyway, regardless of the ACA. Private insurance companies are notorious for pulling out, dropping coverage or raising plan prices - causing healthy people to switch plans and squeezing the remaining sick people who, until the ACA, couldn't switch due to pre-existing conditions.
The impact of the ACA is that millions of people can now get effective, affordable insurance - perhaps, in some cases, elsewhere. The ACA didn't force her company to drop out, they simply chose to, which, as private companies, they can do anytime.
Can't stand to get REAL information from someone other than Rupert Murdoch, can you?
Name one thing the TSA has stopped. One.
Well... They almost stopped me from traveling once because I asked a question about something. The guy then said, "do you want to travel today?" I said, "yes." He said, "then be quiet." If I had been single and not traveling with others, I might have protested, but instead I played "good sheep."
So, they're good at intimidating innocent people.
How long until it's not just some crazy guy off his meds and a normal person with a legitimate grievance...like a loved one being denied care under Obamacare?
Not as long until some unformed idiot poses a question like that.
You do know that "Obamacare" isn't an insurance plan or insurance company - right? You do know that the ACA only specifies *minimum* levels that all insurance plans must provide - right? You do know that all those plans are offered by private insurance companies - right? You do know that *private* insurance companies deny care all the fucking time, except now, under the ACA, they have fewer avenues to do so (no more: life-time limits or denials based on pre-existing conditions - before or after the fact) - right?
Scanning the thousands of hopped-up faces in the crowd, I am immediately struck by two things. One is that there isn't a single black person here. The other is the truly awesome quantity of medical hardware: Seemingly every third person in the place is sucking oxygen from a tank or propping their giant atrophied glutes on motorized wheelchair-scooters. As Palin launches into her Ronald Reagan impression — "Government's not the solution! Government's the problem!" — the person sitting next to me leans over and explains.
"The scooters are because of Medicare," he whispers helpfully. "They have these commercials down here: 'You won't even have to pay for your scooter! Medicare will pay!' Practically everyone in Kentucky has one."
A hall full of elderly white people in Medicare-paid scooters, railing against government spending and imagining themselves revolutionaries as they cheer on the vice-presidential puppet hand-picked by the GOP establishment. If there exists a better snapshot of everything the Tea Party represents, I can't imagine it.
George W. Bush was — a fairly successful — governor (Executive) of a major State.
Well... it's Texas. From Wikipedia:
Compared to the governors of other U.S. states, the governorship of Texas is a fairly weak office. The Lieutenant Governor of Texas, who presides over the state Senate, is considered a more powerful political figure, being able to exercise greater personal prerogatives.
And, according to this reference, the Texas legislature only meets every two years for 140 days, so how fucking busy could the Governor actually be, except for executing people and fund raising.
And, as far as Texas itself goes, according to The Texas Observer, The Texas Legislative Group produced a study saying:
How’s Texas doing? Not so great: The state ranks 50th in high school graduation rate, first in amount of carbon emissions, first in hazardous waste produced, last in voter turnout, first in percentage of people without health insurance, and second in percentage of uninsured kids.
So, even ignoring their tendency to push Creationism over Science in their school curriculum, Texas is certainly a big state, but "major" is questionable - unless you mean major failure... But, if that's what the people want... you can't argue with stupid.
neither Obama nor anyone in his immediate circle has any experience as a, well, Executive... The opposition were crying about this point in 2008 — Obama never ran anything (except for a small failed charity)
The same argument could be made about many (most?) people, including George W Bush. Here's a 1999 CNN article about Bush as Businessman that concludes with:
So Bush the businessman did prosper. But not by his bootstraps -- with help from wealthy friends and taxpayer subsidies.
In many cases, his companies, co-investors and taxpayers came out much worse for working with him.
should we be spending billions to... 1) work toward reducing poverty in our nation? 2) make a faster plane to bomb the shit out of someone faster in a war that hasn't started yet?
Well... Our "war on poverty" obviously needs some help, so can't we simply use the SR-72 to bomb *our* poor people faster?
A obama voting welfare recipient,...
The phrases "Obama voting" and "welfare recipient" might mot be as accurate as you think.
You might find this interesting. From Slate.com (and others):
The top ten states that got the most back in federal benefits (9/10 are Red states): New Mexico (Blue), Mississippi, Alaska, Louisiana, W. Virginia, N. Dakota, Alabama, S. Dakota, Virginia, Kentucky.
The bottom 10 states - that give more than they receive in federal benefits (all Blue states): New Jersey, Nevada, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Illinois, Delaware, California, New York, Colorado.
In addition: About the assumptions surrounding Mitt Romney’s now infamous comments about the indolent “47 percent” of Americans who regard themselves as victims and therefore pay no taxes. As the American Conservative magazinepointed out recently, nine of those 10 states are in the Old Confederacy.
Most Tea Partiers are angry about what they were forced to bring only to see it wasted,...
"Wasted" in this case meaning anything they don't care about and/or doesn't affect them and/or is spent on people they don't like.
Things may have been different if they'd just come out with their side of the story on why solar is bad.
Utilizing Solar energy may have issues, but I'd be hard pressed to describe it as "bad" - unless you're a fossil-fuel company. Perhaps, I'm misinformed, but all I can imagine is Mr. Mackey from South Park saying, "Solar energy is bad, m'kay."
Imagine the nerve of suggesting that people might not only live off the grid, they could invest their money in a means of production and then sell that product!
In other words, people with excess solar capacity are small-business owners.
To be fair, Republicans fully support small-business owners, unless they interfere with big business, or Conservative moral/social agendas, or a politician's chances of getting re-elected, or those people have anything to do with minorities, women, reproductive rights, sexual orientation ... Wait, what was I talking about again?
And thus begins the plot of Daybreakers.
The film takes place in a futuristic world overrun by vampires. A vampiric corporation sets out to capture and farm the remaining humans while researching a blood substitute. Lead vampire hematologist Edward Dalton's (Ethan Hawke) work is interrupted by human survivors led by former vampire "Elvis" (Willem Dafoe), who has a cure that can save the human species.
I saw that segment and it was hugely depressing. This is what our country has come to. Is it a good thing... or a bad thing...?
I'm going to say: bad thing ... [ CNN can quote me on that :-) ]
Tom has been at the forefront of some of the very dramatic changes that we've seen in the way we communicate and how we live our lives.
Taking inspiration from Jon Stewart's commentary last night about the recent trend in cable news (namely CNN) anchor questions:
I'll ask, "Is this a good thing or bad thing?"
Ada 83 sucked. Ada 95 fixed most of the problems, and I believe that they're up to Ada 2012.
Wow. From 95 to 2012 - they must be using Chrome/Firefox style version numbering :-)
I agree with your points. With regard to the government's one-sided interpretation of evidence, I would tend to favor incompetence over evil intentions - obviously not necessarily better, but distinctively different.
My question remains though. * If * someone turns their back on what another has to offer, should the offer remain?
If an American citizen becomes an (especially, overseas) enemy combatant against the US (which, I would argue, equates to treason or relinquishing US citizenship - but that can be a separate argument), and effectively gives up all their responsibilities to the US, should they still be afforded all their rights as a US citizen?
The orange colour of the old bulbs is actually known to inhibit night vision, so white LEDs are safer.
My understanding is that white light destroys (photobleaches) the rhodopsin/visual purple in the eye, inhibiting night vision, which is why ships and subs use red (or simply non-white) lights at night. Anyone out there with more specific info and/or why one color is better than another for night vision preservation?
Are our "inalienable" rights suddenly "alienable" because we're overseas?
If someone turns their back on what another has to offer, should the offer remain? Besides, I'm pretty sure our "inalienable" rights don't include a trial; that is granted by the Constitution/Bill of Rights... If you mean "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" - as stated in the Declaration of Independence - then I would ask when do those rights of the one supersede those same rights of the many?
It may be arguable whether killing overseas Americans acting with enemy combatants is wrong/acceptable, but I won't weep for them. They made their choice, and have to live and/or die by the consequences - live/die by the sword. (You know, that "personal responsibility" stuff Conservatives are always ranting about.)
Were? You think things are better? Our government is executing Americans overseas without a trial(even an unfair one) now.
There's a lesson to be learned from this exchange in the movie Unforgiven and, think what you will of me, I don't believe these overseas Americans of which you speak have learned it:
What happens when a person designs and builds a series of parts that are separately useful as something other than a "gun", but when combined in the right way does build a functioning "gun"?
Is that you Francisco_Scaramanga?
Their soon-to-be-published paper found that tapping the bottle (or shooting it with a laser) causes a series of compression and expansion waves, that generate unstable buoyant plumes, quickly turning most of the liquid into foam.
Just one more reason sharks are lousy drinking buddies.
The results offer the possibility that buried catastrophe victims not carrying such tags might still be located by TWIPR
Think of how many more people could be quickly found in building rubble or IEDs found by battlefield personnel if the teams were using search dolphins. The military could even equip them with lasers to support combat operations with, unlike sharks, no need for night-vision goggles. Think of the real-world applications people.
A babel fish should be able to sort it out ... :-)
I prefer translator microbes ... :-)
When I got on the internet in 1992 as a 9th grader, the NSA didn't even officially exist,
Even when I got on the Internet in the early 1980's, in college - and probably still.
Doesn't NSA stand for No Such Agency?