September 27, 2013

Ahh, an open thread
— Purple Avenger

With that lilac'y fresh spring rain smell.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at 08:56 AM | Comments (281)
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1 Yeah, that other one was pretty rank.

Posted by: joncelli at September 27, 2013 08:57 AM (RD7QR)

2 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at September 27, 2013 08:57 AM (/PCJa)

3 Burn it down. Scatter the stones. Salt the earth where it stood.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at September 27, 2013 08:57 AM (/PCJa)

4 Let.It.Burn

Posted by: Grover's at September 27, 2013 08:57 AM (9aKQB)

5 OTOH, I like lilac.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at September 27, 2013 08:57 AM (/PCJa)

6 This thread smells nummy.

Posted by: wooga at September 27, 2013 08:58 AM (T5A5e)

7 We're all socialists now.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 27, 2013 08:58 AM (aDwsi)

8
Oh, thank you. I'm afraid I was feeling not so fresh.

I was in need of a picnic in the field with my mother. That's were we talk about our not-so-fresh feelings.

Posted by: Active Woman Riding Bikes, Rock Climbing, and Hiking at September 27, 2013 08:59 AM (ay6+/)

9 My insurance is going away on Jan 1

Posted by: Grover's at September 27, 2013 08:59 AM (9aKQB)

10 We're all socialists serfs now. FIFY. We've been socialists since at least the 70s. Some will say the 50s.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at September 27, 2013 08:59 AM (/PCJa)

11 79-19? who didn't vote?

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2013 08:59 AM (DmNpO)

12 Yeah cloture passed, now Reid can strip out the de-funding ...Hurrah...

Posted by: hello, it's me also a creep-assed cracka.. at September 27, 2013 08:59 AM (9+ccr)

13 Has anyone read Peggy Noonan's article today? Is there any feeling amongst any Americans that Obama is Presidential and represents this country? Aside from the no information voters, does anybody left or right respect Obama?

Posted by: Hoogie at September 27, 2013 08:59 AM (RlbpF)

14 8 We're all socialists now.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 27, 2013 12:58 PM (aDwsi)


Whether we like it or not.

Posted by: joncelli at September 27, 2013 09:00 AM (RD7QR)

15 Ahh the fresh smell of VX

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 27, 2013 09:00 AM (QidfK)

16 ok then.
besides congress  who else has automatic expemtions, islamists, shakers?


who else and can we find a way onto the I am more free than you list?

Posted by: willow at September 27, 2013 09:00 AM (nqBYe)

17 that 70's heavy-stoner music will rot your brain and shrivel your Johnson



Posted by: Otto, who thinks Plato was Belgian at September 27, 2013 09:00 AM (omBWL)

18 79-19? who didn't vote? Posted by: Niedermeyer's -------------------------- I'm only surprised that it wasn't 90 - 19

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 27, 2013 09:00 AM (aDwsi)

19

from the prior thread:

when you realize that this is not Republican vs. Democrat, but it is conservatives/libertarians vs. elitist establishment, this vote makes perfect sense.

The corporatists/elitists and their stooges want Obamacare to be the law of the land. Mo money, mo power.

Posted by: tofer732 at September 27, 2013 09:00 AM (z3MpN)

20 Yeah cloture passed, now Reid can strip out the de-funding ...Hurrah... *** And Thune, Barrasso, and Johnson all voted 'aye' AFTER the motion had already passed!

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2013 09:00 AM (DmNpO)

21 The 30s, really

Posted by: brak at September 27, 2013 09:00 AM (iEoiA)

22 Ahh the fresh smell of VX You know, if I'm going to be killed by a nerve toxin, can it at least be Smile-X? I mean, when you gotta go, go with a smile, right?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at September 27, 2013 09:01 AM (/PCJa)

23 16 Ahh the fresh smell of VX

I prefer the spearmint Sarin

Posted by: Grover's at September 27, 2013 09:01 AM (9aKQB)

24 35 slave workers die each month in Qatar working on the new stadiums for the 2022 World Cup.  World community says "meh, we don't tell Islamic nations what to do."

Posted by: Rory at September 27, 2013 09:01 AM (IL9gH)

25 Yeah cloture passed, now Reid can strip out the de-funding ...Hurrah... *** Next step is the House turning back a bill with a one-year delay of the individual mandate.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2013 09:01 AM (DmNpO)

26 Ironic that on the day the GOP rolls over for Harry Reid (again), my family got our official notifications of what we're paying for next year. I can go on my school plan, so I can avoid the 300% increase, but my Mom can't. $710 a month, and there's still a large deductable. What the hell are we going to do? Jesus... I'm crying over here.

Posted by: WolfinNC at September 27, 2013 09:02 AM (Vvg+J)

27 I am deeply, deeply disappointed that wasn't a Summer's Eve commercial. I put this at the end of the rank thread but here, read and laugh, especially the JJ Watt finding: http://bit.ly/1eGXkA9 The Belichick thing is completely true as well.

Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at September 27, 2013 09:02 AM (VtjlW)

28

8 "We're all socialists now."

 

On the bright side, a well run death panel can clean out a clogged up system and bring amazing cost reductions in no time.

 

Sometimes you've just got to embrace the suck.

Posted by: jwest at September 27, 2013 09:02 AM (u2a4R)

29 So that's what was in Irongrampa's tuna can, Joker-fish...

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at September 27, 2013 09:02 AM (QidfK)

30 We've been socialists since at least the 70s. Some will say the 50s.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at September 27, 2013 12:59 PM (/PCJa)


I say since the 30's. 8/14/1935 if we wanna get specific.

Posted by: mugiwara at September 27, 2013 09:02 AM (D5hxK)

31 Also we need to make sure as we all start having to hear about the 1996 Government shutdown that we make it known that Clinton kept it going because when the workers couldn't work the interns had access to the oval office and thats how the Lewinski relationship happened. That was the nerve Clinton had to face down the shutdown.

Posted by: Rory at September 27, 2013 09:02 AM (IL9gH)

32 hahahahah.. land of the Non Free home of the non Brave.

who owns ya now babay

Posted by: our representatives at September 27, 2013 09:02 AM (nqBYe)

33 I prefer phosgene it has the smell of "new mown hay"

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 27, 2013 09:03 AM (6J+oK)

34 Now they will debate the and vote on its passage  of the bill that has added the Obamacare funding back in.    How many votes does it need to pass.  Simple majority? 

Posted by: polynikes at September 27, 2013 09:03 AM (m2CN7)

35 Can some one please grab the nuts of all the repubs/conservatives bashing other repubs/conservatives and tell them to cut it out. Targeting must be directed at Dem/Liberal idiots only.

Posted by: rld777 at September 27, 2013 09:04 AM (gObCt)

36 anyone have a list of how they voted on cloture? I know the final result, need to Identify the sellouts. Rick

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 27, 2013 09:04 AM (6J+oK)

37 I prefer phosgene it has the smell of "new mown hay" Posted by: Strategic Corporal ------------------- The lab adjacent to mine had a cylinder of that stuff. Gave me the creeps.

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 27, 2013 09:04 AM (aDwsi)

38 Now they will debate the and vote on its passage of the bill that has added the Obamacare funding back in. How many votes does it need to pass. Simple majority? *** yes. Reid will make sure of that.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2013 09:04 AM (DmNpO)

39 I sidebar'd a thing about shutdowns.  Carter had 6...with a Dem congress.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 27, 2013 09:04 AM (9MLX+)

40 I prefer phosgene it has the smell of "new mown hay" Chlorine - Tidy Bowl

Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2013 09:05 AM (ix+5k)

41 McDrain, fight, fight ,fight . fight with me!
nevermind.

Posted by: willow at September 27, 2013 09:05 AM (nqBYe)

42 @ChadPergram No Democrats voted against cutting off debate on the CR. There were 25 GOPers who voted yea

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at September 27, 2013 09:05 AM (bCEmE)

43 Cowards! Jamie Dupree ‏@jamiedupree 4m We think that the two people not voting were Sen Flake R-AZ & Sen Hatch R-UT Flake committed yesterday to voting 'no'

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2013 09:05 AM (DmNpO)

44 Now they will debate the and vote on its passage of the bill that has added the Obamacare funding back in. How many votes does it need to pass. Simple majority? Posted by: polynikes at September 27, 2013 01:03 PM (m2CN7) 51 so lets watch the games as they seek cover. Never forget the cloture vote was the one that passed this monstrosity.

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 27, 2013 09:05 AM (6J+oK)

45

This should end like a scene out of the movie "Tucker".

 

After they get done voting, they should walk outside to see 50 brand new Dutch euthanasia vans parked in front of the capital.

Posted by: jwest at September 27, 2013 09:06 AM (u2a4R)

46 No Democrats voted against cutting off debate on the CR. There were 25 GOPers who voted yea Over half the caucus decided that it was more important to be nice (to Democrats) than to save us from this Monstrosity. Awesome.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at September 27, 2013 09:06 AM (/PCJa)

47 When a man dies on a hill, his body naturally rolls over.  And over and over until it hits the bottom.

Posted by: Shoot Me at September 27, 2013 09:06 AM (qiXMt)

48 will any committee in the House invite people like Hoffa to testify about what Obamacare is doing to union health plans? Any GOP plans for ads interviewing college students who thought the "covered till 26" was great until their parents policy was cancelled?

Posted by: mallfly at September 27, 2013 09:06 AM (bJm7W)

49 Flake committed yesterday to voting 'no'

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2013 01:05 PM (DmNpO

 

Well Hatch not locked in  as I thought.   He punted. 

Posted by: polynikes at September 27, 2013 09:07 AM (m2CN7)

50
   There are a few things I can do to avoid the coming shitstorm, so best to get about them, I guess.

   Not going to enumerate them online, though.  That can come as a surprise, hopefully.

Posted by: irongrampa at September 27, 2013 09:07 AM (SAMxH)

51 Oh, by the way? Get ready for your "Bi-partisan supported ObamaCare." Good job, guys.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at September 27, 2013 09:07 AM (/PCJa)

52 PPP has Cruz in 1st place now for 2016 nomination.

Posted by: Jon (not the troll) at September 27, 2013 09:07 AM (d1T9E)

53 *waves tiny dork you in your squeakholes you urinal cake eating paste snorting process hiding behind jackanapes sign*

Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at September 27, 2013 09:08 AM (VtjlW)

54 The Belichick thing is completely true as well.

Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at September 27, 2013 01:02 PM (VtjlW)

I love it when Belichick sticks his thumb in the press' eye...which is every time he give a press conference.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2013 09:08 AM (/kU/5)

55

Vote

Incumbents

Out!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 27, 2013 09:08 AM (1/RiT)

56 PPP has Cruz in 1st place now for 2016 nomination.

Posted by: Jon (not the troll) at September 27, 2013 01:07 PM (d1T9E)


No, keep him where he is, or better yet Gov of Texas.

Posted by: [/i][/b]KG at September 27, 2013 09:08 AM (p7BzH)

57 Looking at Drudge's headline about politics being the worst since the Civil War, is it possible to have a rational, non-violent movement for a splitting of the country?

I'm always puzzled why liberals hate the idea so much, I would immediately sign off on California wanting to secede.  But the Left has an authoritarian streak in it, it likes ruling people.

I'm sure every movement that's out of power feels this way, but I'm honestly to the point where I don't see a light at the end of the tunnel unless there's some sort of split.

Posted by: McAdams at September 27, 2013 09:08 AM (ib6E+)

58

Pyongyang, September 26 (KCNA) -- A national farm machine exhibition and meeting of inventors took place at the Institute for Agricultural Mechanization of the Academy of Agricultural Science from Tuesday to Thursday.


 

Presented there were more than 260 pieces of farm machines of dozens of kinds and their spare parts and jigs invented and manufactured by officials, scientists, technicians and workers in the field of agriculture through scientific research and mass technological innovation movement.


 

Drew attention of visitors were deep layer plough, well-nourished cold-bed rice seedling transplanter, rice and maize thrashers and various other thrashers and video showing the process of farm machine production.

----- ---- ----- ----- -----

Wow.  260 farm machines.   That's approaching 300.     

Posted by: DPRK News Channel at September 27, 2013 09:08 AM (sOtz/)

59 On the bright side, a well run death panel

Did you bring enough choom for the group?

There isn't a single thing about this law that has shown as single sign that it will ever be "well-run."

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at September 27, 2013 09:09 AM (/kI1Q)

60 PPP has Cruz in 1st place now for 2016 nomination. *** Folks have a short memory. The shine will wear off and, although he'll remain a front-runner, he may not be THE front-runner for long.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2013 09:09 AM (DmNpO)

61 Sad: Jonah Goldberg's dog Cosmo has passed away.

Posted by: gp at September 27, 2013 09:10 AM (+Jpqc)

62 Also- since I don't drink because reasons: one of you Morons get smashed in my honor.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at September 27, 2013 09:10 AM (/PCJa)

63 Anyone know of a link to the yes/no vote roll?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at September 27, 2013 09:10 AM (aDwsi)

64 you urinal cake eating aka, Texas A & M Aggie breath mints

Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2013 09:10 AM (ix+5k)

65 Boy, the down low Preezy's signature accomplishment has sure turned into a FUBAR'd clusterfuck.  Civil War, Genocide and Anarchy according to the demagogues on the left. 

Who woulda thunk.  Oh, everyone with a reasoned brain looking at the facts?  Good point.

 Okay, excluding them.

Posted by: eureka! at September 27, 2013 09:10 AM (hmMJD)

66 61 PPP has Cruz in 1st place now for 2016 nomination. *** Folks have a short memory. The shine will wear off and, although he'll remain a front-runner, he may not be THE front-runner for long. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2013 01:09 PM (DmNpO) especially with the media hit jobs about to target him, and I wouldn't be surprised to see him get the DeLay treatment.

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 27, 2013 09:10 AM (6J+oK)

67 Bret Baier ‏@BretBaier 40s Interesting note: Sen Flake is missing votes today bc of sonÂ’s wedding. He said he would have been a “no” had he been present.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2013 09:10 AM (DmNpO)

68 58 Looking at Drudge's headline about politics being the worst since the Civil War, is it possible to have a rational, non-violent movement for a splitting of the country?


No, which is why I oppose secession. The first state to secede will be invaded immediately. It's not 1860 anymore.

Posted by: joncelli at September 27, 2013 09:11 AM (RD7QR)

69 Just had lunch out with my son and the subject of the gays who are upset about Barilla pasta came up. He said, "Do they think pasta is homophobic." It did make me laugh. There was a woman behind me seemed like a nice, interesting person (I couldn't help her some of her conversation because the tables were close and she talked rather loudly) but who kept using "like". "I was like......he was like.....It was like...." I am not around a lot of people in their early 20's. Is this still a common thing with many of them? It's one of my pet peeves.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2013 09:11 AM (a4Omg)

70 Way to go, Roy......fuckin' idiot. The White House ‏@WhiteHouse “The exchanges are there, people need insurance.” —Sen. Roy Blunt on why Missourians should #GetCovered

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at September 27, 2013 09:11 AM (bCEmE)

71 Sad: Jonah Goldberg's dog Cosmo has passed away.

Posted by: gp at September 27, 2013 01:10 PM (+Jpqc)

 

Chasing squirrels in heaven.  Wait,  all dogs go to heaven but do they import squirrels to make the dogs happy?   Dogs are truly a man's best  friend.  

Posted by: polynikes at September 27, 2013 09:11 AM (m2CN7)

72 >>I'm always puzzled why liberals hate the idea so much, I would immediately sign off on California wanting to secede. But the Left has an authoritarian streak in it, it likes ruling people. Of course they don't want to split. Who do you think funds this socialist utopia, them?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2013 09:11 AM (g1DWB)

73 Anarchy in Detroit: Detroit Threat Management http://tinyurl.com/ppvcps6 Only $10 to be escorted to work?

Posted by: RWC at September 27, 2013 09:12 AM (fWAjv)

74 The Commie spam needs to be canned.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at September 27, 2013 09:12 AM (ligos)

75 >>62. Must have been from Obamacare

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at September 27, 2013 09:12 AM (l0lja)

76 "54*waves tiny dork you in your squeakholes you urinal cake eating paste snorting process hiding behind jackanapes sign* Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at September 27, 2013 01:08 PM"


+1 Internetz for the use of 'jackanape.'

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 27, 2013 09:12 AM (knoK7)

77 I love it when Belichick sticks his thumb in the press' eye...which is every time he give a press conference. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2013 01:08 PM (/kU/5) I love it when a red hot poker get slammed into Belichick's eye over and over and over and Ummmmm. Ahem. What, it's not like I'm bitter about Belichick or anything. Not me. Am delicate wilting flower of delicate wiltingness who would never ever wish ill upon a fellow human being. *bounds about*

Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at September 27, 2013 09:13 AM (VtjlW)

78 WolfinNC I'm crying right there with you. Our premium just went up 33% from. 1397 per month to 1857. PER MONTH OR $6000 per year. With a 3k deductible. I broke down in tears when I opened the bill. Cancer survivor here. May not survive obamacare. I think they are trying to cull the herd.

Posted by: Derak at September 27, 2013 09:13 AM (fyprr)

79 I've gotten word at work that our company health plan is still being offered and that it "qualifies" but still no word on what changes will be made.

Btw, will Health Savings Accounts still be allowed?  At work the bosses set one up for everyone in the plan and fund it with $1,000.  I must say, its been extremely convenient to use the credit card whenever I used a small healthcare expenditure.  I also only have to contribute $700/yr for the plan.

Posted by: Serious Cat at September 27, 2013 09:13 AM (UypUQ)

80 "I am not around a lot of people in their early 20's. Is this still a common thing with many of them? It's one of my pet peeves. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2013 01:11 PM"

Like you wouldn't believe....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 27, 2013 09:13 AM (knoK7)

81 Also- since I don't drink because reasons: one of you Morons get smashed in my honor.

Zicke zacke! Zicke zacke!
Hoi! hoi! hoi!

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at September 27, 2013 09:13 AM (/kI1Q)

82 I am not around a lot of people in their early 20's. Is this still a common thing with many of them? It's one of my pet peeves. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2013 01:11 PM (a4Omg) My usual crowd is a LOT younger and they do it as well.

Posted by: Harry Reid (P) at September 27, 2013 09:14 AM (fWAjv)

83

Open thread?

 

*looks at watch*

 

Someone get a fire extinguisher and go wake the ewok.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Outrage Outlet Happy Hour! Cocktails of Betrayal 50% Off! at September 27, 2013 09:14 AM (hLRSq)

84 you urinal cake eating

aka, Texas A & M Aggie breath mints

OT but true story.  One night after having a few I wrote upon the back of 3 x 5 card, "Please do not eat the big white mints.  -The Mgmt"  and taped it above a urinal in one of the barracks restrooms.

That card stayed there until I pulled it down two years later.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at September 27, 2013 09:14 AM (YEelc)

85 If we splite the country in two,  the Conservative States would  build that border fence we have be requesting.   Except it would be to keep out the Liberal state citizens from trying to illegally enter the country when there country goes  to  shit. 

Posted by: polynikes at September 27, 2013 09:14 AM (m2CN7)

86 Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 27, 2013 01:13 PM (knoK7) ;^) Are you speaking for yourself or for your friends? I did not use this when I was that age.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2013 09:15 AM (a4Omg)

87

Whoa whoa.

Wait, does this amendment include a debt ceiling increase?!

Posted by: tsrblke, actual real life PhD student at September 27, 2013 09:15 AM (GaqMa)

88 ...That means astronaut pioneers could extract roughly 2 pints of water out of every cubic foot of Martian dirt Not if we have anything to say about it!

Posted by: Martian Snail Darters Protection Society at September 27, 2013 09:15 AM (FcR7P)

89

With the successful cloture vote, now us wonderful RINO Senators can punt the shutdown back to those icky House Republicans. 

Posted by: Juan McLame at September 27, 2013 09:15 AM (D+lxs)

90 A whole 1 minute to each side to debate the amendment stripping defunding language. Perfectly fair right? Awesome just awesome FORWARD!!!

Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at September 27, 2013 09:15 AM (7mQyC)

91 just got our plan information here at my work.  HSA and FSA accounts are still available.  Looks like our premiums are going up by 10% or so.

Posted by: tofer732 at September 27, 2013 09:15 AM (z3MpN)

92 @ 58 McAdams


There are several smaller municipalities that are attempting secession from California.

Link to FOX News story
http://tinyurl.com/q9wd58r


Posted by: drivebylurker at September 27, 2013 09:16 AM (5ikDv)

93 I have that springtime fresh feeling! And three stitches in my head from having smacked it hard with the handle of a garden fork. Thank God Ocare hasn't cut in yet, so I didn't have to justify my existence to a death panel before getting treatment.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars [/i] [/b] [/s] at September 27, 2013 09:16 AM (x+Knu)

94 Most deliberative body!

Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at September 27, 2013 09:16 AM (7mQyC)

95 ";^) Are you speaking for yourself or for your friends?

I did not use this when I was that age. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2013 01:15 PM"


I'm waay past that age group.  But I hear it all the time from them.  Makes me want to jab an ice pick in my ears and tell them to get off my lawn.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 27, 2013 09:16 AM (knoK7)

96 10 My insurance is going away on Jan 1

Posted by: Grover's at September 27, 2013 12:59 PM (9aKQB)

 

 

My job goes away today.

Posted by: wrg500 at September 27, 2013 09:16 AM (kPeSM)

97 The REAL speaker of the House? Robert Costa ‏@robertcostaNRO 2m House R tells me Cruz is "just great" and "on the same pg" as the bloc that organized Boehner coup attmpt http://t.co/bmYeD3Cpnf

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2013 09:16 AM (DmNpO)

98

Aside from the no information voters, does anybody left or right respect Obama?

 

My friendsh, we musht respect the electionsh. ..

Posted by: John McCain, The Greatest Villian Yet Unhung at September 27, 2013 09:16 AM (zF6Iw)

99 Small rant here. I'm a software tester. That means I work with a lot of technologies. When I am looking for any new position each requires a set of technologies as required to do the job well. Each position has core technologies that are non-negotiable, and others that can be learned and are a softer barrier if you don't know them well. Human Resources for software companies don't know tech. They just don't. They don't know which things can be picked up along the way and which take years to use and understand well. What ends up happening is they look for keywords in the job description and the candidate's resume. Both sides, hiring and hoping to be hired know this. So both end up throwing everything and the kitchen sink on the requirement or resume. If you've had some exposure to a tech, put it on your resume. If the job might possibly require a tech, throw it on the description. It's an arms race. But it totally breaks down when the core technologies are not listed on the requirement, or the HR person ignores that facet. I just interviewed for a position that requires deep knowledge of C and C++. I have shallow knowledge of those languages and deep knowledge of .NET specifically C#. I didn't apply to this position, I applied to another one and somehow HR put my resume into this bucket. This has happened more than once and with top-tier companies that are known around the world. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Posted by: bonhomme at September 27, 2013 09:16 AM (yETln)

100 If we splite the country in two, the Conservative States would build that border fence we have be requesting. Except it would be to keep out the Liberal state citizens from trying to illegally enter the country when there country goes to shit. Sea bass with lasers on their fricken heads in the Mississippi!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2013 09:17 AM (ix+5k)

101 They are now voting on whether to strip away the language defunding Obamacare.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2013 09:17 AM (DmNpO)

102

Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2013 01:11 PM (g1DWB)

 

Most unlikely comeback evah!  Unbelievable.  Makes Larry Ellison's skipping his conference less douchey.    

Posted by: polynikes at September 27, 2013 09:17 AM (m2CN7)

103 Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at September 27, 2013 01:13 PM (VtjlW)

So you're a Jets fan?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 27, 2013 09:17 AM (/kU/5)

104 Thanks. I'm glad someone understands my annoyance. It got so bad I was about to start counting them.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 27, 2013 09:17 AM (a4Omg)

105

"I'm crying right there with you. Our premium just went up 33% from. 1397 per month to 1857. PER MONTH OR $6000 per year. With a 3k deductible."

 

It doesn't make any sense to pay $1857/month and have a $3K deductible.

 

Look for a plan with a deductible of about $15,000.  Pay the reduced monthly premium and put the difference into a savings account.  If you stay healthy  for a year, you'll be money ahead. 

Posted by: jwest at September 27, 2013 09:18 AM (u2a4R)

106 @philipaklein RT @McCormackJohn: To succeed, defunders now need 5 Democratic votes. If GOP followed Cruz plan, they would need...5 Democratic votes.

Posted by: Miss80sBaby at September 27, 2013 09:18 AM (YjDyJ)

107 79 ---I'm crying right there with you. Our premium just went up 33% from. 1397 per month to 1857. PER MONTH OR $6000 per year. With a 3k deductible. Posted by: Derak at September 27, 2013 01:13 PM (fyprr) --------------------- $1857 per month is $22,284 per year. I sure hope your $6000 figure is the right one. (With a 3K deductible, it had better be!!!)

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 27, 2013 09:18 AM (dfYL9)

108 You have nothing to fear from Grand Emperor for Life Barrack Obama.

Posted by: Senator John "psycho dumbass" McCain at September 27, 2013 09:18 AM (5ikDv)

109

102They are now voting on whether to strip away the language defunding Obamacare.

 

Let me guess - all those stand-tough Republicans will now vote no.

Posted by: tofer732 at September 27, 2013 09:18 AM (z3MpN)

110

Agriculture on Mars...    How does that work?

Posted by: Beagle at September 27, 2013 09:19 AM (sOtz/)

111

PPP has Cruz in 1st place now for 2016 nomination.

 

I'm sure hollowpoint is doing his best "See?  See?  I told you so, wingnutz!" dance.

Posted by: John McCain, The Greatest Villian Yet Unhung at September 27, 2013 09:19 AM (zF6Iw)

112 FreedomWorks was quick out of the gate with a fundraising email subject: First name, They Betrayed You

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 27, 2013 09:19 AM (6J+oK)

113 I'm waay past that age group. But I hear it all the time from them. Makes me want to jab an ice pick in my ears and tell them to get off my lawn. Better to jab the icepick in their ears!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2013 09:19 AM (ix+5k)

114  just got our plan information here at my work. HSA and FSA accounts are still available. Looks like our premiums are going up by 10% or so.

Posted by: tofer732 at September 27, 2013 01:15 PM (z3MpN)

State/province?

Posted by: Serious Cat at September 27, 2013 09:19 AM (UypUQ)

115 80. They take those HSA credit cards at the liquor store too. Medicinal use only.

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at September 27, 2013 09:19 AM (l0lja)

116 Robert Costs, NRO, is tweeting like crazy. Cruz and Company are still fighting like hell to make the House put out something tougher than currently planned.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2013 09:20 AM (DmNpO)

117 Small rant here. I'm a software tester. I read that as taster and was very confused. So in your professional estimation, on a scale of 0 to Sandra Fluke, how fucked is the IT implementation of the exchanges going to be on October 1st?

Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at September 27, 2013 09:20 AM (VtjlW)

118 I didn't apply to this position, I applied to another one and somehow HR put my resume into this bucket. This has happened more than once and with top-tier companies that are known around the world.

Shallow knowledge of C? Come sit in the desk across from me. The guy they filled that desk with--to test software--has a Mech Eng degree and no software background at all except a couple of classes that used Matlab.

And he doesn't show up on Fridays.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at September 27, 2013 09:20 AM (/kI1Q)

119

"Thank God Ocare hasn't cut in yet, so I didn't have to justify my existence to a death panel before getting treatment."

 

 

(deep voice)  "Tell us again why you should live."

 

 

Posted by: jwest at September 27, 2013 09:20 AM (u2a4R)

120 Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2013 01:16 PM (DmNpO) On a Thursday conference call, a group of House conservatives consulted with Senator Ted Cruz of Texas about how to respond to the leadership’s fiscal strategy. Sources who were on the call say Cruz strongly advised them to oppose it, and hours later, Speaker John Boehner’s plan fizzled. It’s the latest example of Cruz leading the House’s right flank. The private call came together after Boehner unveiled his strategy at a Republican conference meeting earlier this week. Boehner’s plan — to focus on a debt-limit package, rather than a drawn-out CR battle — made many conservatives uneasy. As they mulled a response, they reached out to Cruz. On the call, Cruz told them that Boehner was making a mistake, and urged his friends to fight until the end on the CR. The group agreed, and they complained that Boehner’s shift to the debt limit was a diversion. Senator Mike Lee of Utah joined Cruz on the call, and both senators said they’d stand with House conservatives as they opposed the leadership. By the call’s end, there was a consensus: until the CR talks are complete, Republicans should whip “no” on Boehner’s debt-limit plan, as a way of preventing the leadership from directing the strategy. And that’s exactly what happened late Thursday afternoon: GOP whip Kevin McCarthy worked the floor, but couldn’t find the votes for Boehner’s debt-limit plan. After McCarthy reported back about the Cruz-inspired uprising, the leadership shelved it. ht - flopping aces via NRO

Posted by: Harry Reid (P) at September 27, 2013 09:20 AM (fWAjv)

121 from the prior thread:
when you realize that this is not Republican vs. Democrat, but it is conservatives/libertarians vs. elitist establishment, this vote makes perfect sense.

Once you realize that's a stupid, uninformed opinion borne from a tinfoil-wearing reactionary mindset, you might better understand what they're doing and why.

Then you can come back and agree or disagree with their strategy in a sane way.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at September 27, 2013 09:20 AM (SY2Kh)

122 State/province?

Posted by: Serious Cat at September 27, 2013 01:19 PM (UypUQ)

 

PA

Posted by: tofer732 at September 27, 2013 09:20 AM (z3MpN)

123  Obamas advisor  Pfeiffer speaking with Jake Tapper ;


comparing Republicans to arsonists, hostage-takers and suicide bombers.

"What we're not for is negotiating with people with a bomb strapped to their chest," Pfeiffer said in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper  "We're not going to do that."


business insider@

why do we think we will be treated well with any govt agency at this point?
they save the worst of the worst terms and use them against US .

Posted by: willow at September 27, 2013 09:20 AM (nqBYe)

124 At least he's stopped asking me to stand behind him and tell him where to click the fucking mouse.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at September 27, 2013 09:20 AM (/kI1Q)

125 bonhomme at September 27, 2013 01:16 PM --- Indeed. Happens all the time.

Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at September 27, 2013 09:21 AM (7mQyC)

126 Better to jab the icepick in their ears!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2013 01:19 PM (ix+5k)

Ooooh....free piercings!

Posted by: Like...whatever...like at September 27, 2013 09:21 AM (/kU/5)

127 Alas, Cosmo is no more.

There's a good dog. RIP

Posted by: Jones in CO at September 27, 2013 09:21 AM (8sCoq)

128 Did you see that they are auctioning off Richard III standard from Bosworth Field? I'd like to know how they determined the provenance and of course it's more than a bit tatty looking but still it's interesting. I bet the car park lady is salivating...

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman, PhD Bitches! at September 27, 2013 09:21 AM (T0Pku)

129 97 10 My insurance is going away on Jan 1 Posted by: Grover's at September 27, 2013 12:59 PM (9aKQB) My job goes away today. My dick fell off this morning.

Posted by: Oh yeah? at September 27, 2013 09:21 AM (l0lja)

130 Hollowpoint - you sound like an establishment Republican.  Complete with the snide remarks.

Posted by: tofer732 at September 27, 2013 09:22 AM (z3MpN)

131 Agriculture on Mars... How does that work? Poorly. Veggies will spoil on the return trip...

Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2013 09:22 AM (ix+5k)

132 "Let me guess - all those stand-tough Republicans will now vote no." --- But of course... As if we're not on to the charade.

Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at September 27, 2013 09:22 AM (7mQyC)

133

If we splite the country in two, the Conservative States would build that border fence we have be requesting. Except it would be to keep out the Liberal state citizens from trying to illegally enter the country when there country goes to shit.

 

 

Already long overdue. I want a checkpoint on I-95 at South of the Border post haste.

Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at September 27, 2013 09:22 AM (JxMoP)

134 Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 27, 2013 01:18 PM (dfYL9) I think the 6k was the increase not the total.

Posted by: RWC at September 27, 2013 09:22 AM (fWAjv)

135 Oh, and tomorrow the Normans invade England, so have your battle gear ready.

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman, PhD Bitches! at September 27, 2013 09:23 AM (T0Pku)

136

comparing Republicans to arsonists, hostage-takers and suicide bombers.
----- -------- ------ ---------- ------- -----

 

 

That's  just like the North Korean News Agency.  

 

And the thing   Obama said  about runaway slaves was real I hear.  

 

Can I go to camp early and get a good spot?

 

 

Posted by: Beagle at September 27, 2013 09:23 AM (sOtz/)

137 Once you realize that's a stupid, uninformed opinion borne from a tinfoil-wearing reactionary mindset, you might better understand what they're doing and why.

Then you can come back and agree or disagree with their strategy in a sane way.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at September 27, 2013 01:20 PM (SY2Kh)

 

 

talk about bad timing with that post.  

Posted by: polynikes at September 27, 2013 09:23 AM (m2CN7)

138 how fucked is the IT implementation of the exchanges going to be on October 1st?

Epic'ly fucked.  Biblical proportions.

Thousands of bugs.

Posted by: Purp[/i][/b][/u][/s] at September 27, 2013 09:23 AM (9MLX+)

139 Wow. 260 farm machines. That's approaching 300.

Posted by: DPRK News Channel at September 27, 2013 01:08 PM (sOtz/)


In other words, less than the average number of separate pieces of farm machinery displayed on one Indiana or Illinois corn and soy bean operation.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes at September 27, 2013 09:23 AM (kXoT0)

140 117 Cruz and Company are still fighting like hell to make the House put out something tougher than currently planned.

"A leading plan for the continuing-resolution bill (CR), which is expected to pass the Senate today after language defending Obamacare has been stripped out, is to put back a relatively small provision targeting unpopular parts of the health-care law.

The provisions under consideration to repeal in the bill include the medical-device tax, the individual mandate, the Independent Payment Advisory Board, and a special subsidy for members of Congress and their staffs to purchase health care on the exchange markets."

Posted by: Miss80sBaby at September 27, 2013 09:23 AM (YjDyJ)

141 Ah, condolences to Goldberg. Cosmo was a cool dog. He's in heaven now, chasing Jacobin squirrels forever.

Posted by: joncelli at September 27, 2013 09:24 AM (RD7QR)

142  KBDaBear ‏@kbdabear 1h

#AlecBaldwinBarillaCommercial "What's on your plate, you lying little bitch"

#AlecBaldwinBarillaCommercial "If you find a better pasta, buy it, you toxic little queens

#AlecBaldwinBarillaCommercial "I want all my followers to eat Barilla and straighten out this fucking little bitch George Stark"

#AlecBaldwinBarillaCommercial Put your foot up a toxic little queen's ass, eat Barilla pasta, get more miles on your Capital One card

Posted by: kbdabear at September 27, 2013 09:24 AM (/9IC1)

143 and party line on the amendment? (I know Murray is a R on paper)

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 27, 2013 09:25 AM (6J+oK)

144 Once you realize that's a stupid, uninformed opinion borne from a tinfoil-wearing reactionary mindset, you might better understand what they're doing and why.

Then you can come back and agree or disagree with their strategy in a sane way.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at September 27, 2013 01:20 PM (SY2Kh)


Oh, now you can decide when another commenter can come or go, depending on whether or not the commenter agrees with you.  Nice to know.

Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2013 09:25 AM (HjPtV)

145 "So in your professional estimation, on a scale of 0 to Sandra Fluke, how fucked is the IT implementation of the exchanges going to be on October 1st?" --- Fluked

Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at September 27, 2013 09:25 AM (7mQyC)

146 how fucked is the IT implementation of the exchanges going to be on October 1st?

Epic'ly fucked. Biblical proportions.

Thousands of bugs.

Posted by: Purp at September 27, 2013 01:23 PM (9MLX+)


Ours only cost $100,000,000 dollars and counting.  Not one flu shot or well baby doctor exam paid for out of that money--just IT costs to build our exchanges for the five states in which we do business.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes at September 27, 2013 09:25 AM (kXoT0)

147 Oh, and tomorrow the Normans invade England, so have your battle gear ready. Crossbows FTW!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2013 09:25 AM (ix+5k)

148

Whether pasta is homophobic or not is not of any  import. What is truly  of import is whether you mix the pasta with the anti-pasta.  If you do,  all life as you know it will end.

 

It's physics. 

Posted by: LGoPs at September 27, 2013 09:25 AM (qQuYD)

149 ugh confused her with the Maine senators

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 27, 2013 09:25 AM (6J+oK)

150 Just read that NBC news is going to be doing a week long cheerleading series for Obamacare. Starting things off will be a dramatic re-enactment of Katie Couric's colonoscopy. Playing the part of Katie?...Barack Obama. Playing the part of the colonoscopy tube?....Brian Williams' tongue.

Posted by: landofskybluewater at September 27, 2013 09:25 AM (JoIcn)

151 The Commie are against any talk of secession because they need our sweet, sweet tax dollars. They may hate us and deride us as rayciss, homophobic, poor-hating, woman-hating, gramma-killing knuckle-dragging terrorist teabaggers...but in the end they need us and they damn well know it. They need our dollars, and they need an opposition party to deflect all their failures onto, with the help of the complicit State Media. Two minutes hate and fork over your wallet, please.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at September 27, 2013 09:25 AM (7ObY1)

152 Thousands of bugs.

Posted by: Purp at September 27, 2013 01:23 PM (9MLX+)

 

 

It's not a bug it's a feature.

Posted by: wrg500 at September 27, 2013 09:26 AM (kPeSM)

153 Has the GOP broken up the Union yet?  Or is that what comes at the end of the countdown?

Posted by: Fritz at September 27, 2013 09:26 AM (UzPAd)

154 I just interviewed for a position that requires deep knowledge of C and C++. I have shallow knowledge of those languages and deep knowledge of .NET specifically C#. I didn't apply to this position, I applied to another one and somehow HR put my resume into this bucket. This has happened more than once and with top-tier companies that are known around the world. I feel your pain. It's happened to me (as a developer, not a tester) a few times. The greatest one most recently was when I applied for a "Back-end C# position" and was rejected because I wasn't a front-end, ASPX UI guy.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at September 27, 2013 09:26 AM (/PCJa)

155 KBDaBear ‏@kbdabear 49m

#AlecBaldwinBarillaCommercial "Eat your fucking Barilla ziti, you disgusting little pig!!"


Anybody have any ideas for an #AlecBaldwinBarillaCommercial ? Bring It, you toxic little queens!

#AlecBaldwinBarillaCommercial "Wait till I finish my Barilla spaghetti, you drug dealing coon!"


Posted by: kbdabear at September 27, 2013 09:26 AM (/9IC1)

156 how fucked is the IT implementation of the exchanges going to be on October 1st? Epic'ly fucked. Biblical proportions. What is bigger than biblical? That x10.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2013 09:26 AM (ix+5k)

157 Sidebar:

I know I mentioned this yesterday, but the starship chart does not include the Spacing Guild mover ships.  One of those ships is large enough to take up two frames.

Also, I don't remember the alien battleships from ID4 being that large.  IIRC, there were 15-20 of them that broke off from the main mothership to come down to earth and start destroying the cities.  The chart is saying one of those ships pretty much eclipses everything else in literature and media.  I don't think that scale is correct.

Posted by: EC at September 27, 2013 09:27 AM (GQ8sn)

158 Spacing Guild ships from Dune.

Posted by: EC at September 27, 2013 09:27 AM (GQ8sn)

159 "151 Just read that NBC news is going to be doing a week long cheerleading series for Obamacare" --- In addition to the 3+ year one they've already had underway?

Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at September 27, 2013 09:28 AM (7mQyC)

160 No, keep him where he is, or better yet Gov of Texas.

Posted by: KG at September 27, 2013 01:08 PM (p7BzH)




Do I hear a 'President of Texas'

Posted by: Sam Houston at September 27, 2013 09:28 AM (Pr6hk)

161 The provisions under consideration to repeal in the bill include the medical-device tax, the individual mandate, the Independent Payment Advisory Board, and a special subsidy for members of Congress and their staffs to purchase health care on the exchange markets." *** Someone was arguing yesterday that repealing the Medical Device Tax was a perfect showing of crony-capitalism. It amazes me that folks fail to understand that it isn't the COMPANIES who pay those taxes.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2013 09:28 AM (DmNpO)

162

Posted by: EC at September 27, 2013 01:27 PM (GQ8sn)

 

Maybe I missed it, but I didn't recall seeing the Yamato there, either.

Posted by: John McCain, The Greatest Villian Yet Unhung at September 27, 2013 09:28 AM (zF6Iw)

163 #AlecBaldwinBarillaCommercial "Eat your fucking Barilla ziti, you disgusting little pig!!" *** My favorite.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2013 09:28 AM (DmNpO)

164

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at September 27, 2013 01:27 PM (OWjjx

 

It is beautiful, and in side studying .

But tonight! The Taproom for drinks! (Either in celebration or depression)

Posted by: tsrblke, actual real life PhD student at September 27, 2013 09:29 AM (GaqMa)

165 Watched a number of episodes of  the Breaking Bad marathon.   Don't think I'll be watching anymore.   Can someone tell me if  Walter ever becomes a badass.   I got to season 3 premier and he hadn't yet. 

Posted by: polynikes at September 27, 2013 09:29 AM (m2CN7)

166 It amazes me that folks fail to understand that it isn't the COMPANIES who pay those taxes. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2013 01:28 PM (DmNpO) AMEN

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 27, 2013 09:29 AM (6J+oK)

167 135 ---I think the 6k was the increase not the total. Posted by: RWC at September 27, 2013 01:22 PM (fWAjv) ----------------------- Ah, I see. Good grief.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at September 27, 2013 09:29 AM (dfYL9)

168 This weekend I am just once again saying "fuck it" to the news, as I did during my recent backpacking trip in Utah. It's gorgeous hiking weather here in the NE...warm but not too warm, not many bugs and the leaves are already turning. I'm intending to turn off the TV and the computer and get out in the woods where everything is always OK. TV doesn't go on till Sunday afternoon football and then the Breaking Bad finale. But that's it. No fucking news.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at September 27, 2013 09:29 AM (7ObY1)

169 54 -44

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 27, 2013 09:29 AM (6J+oK)

170 Maybe I missed it, but I didn't recall seeing the Yamato there, either.


Yeah, that would be tiny too.

All those EVE Gigantor class ships make that chart ridiculous.


Posted by: EC at September 27, 2013 09:29 AM (GQ8sn)

171 Fuckit.  McStain sock off.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 27, 2013 09:29 AM (zF6Iw)

172 "The provisions under consideration to repeal in the bill include the medical-device tax, the individual mandate, the Independent Payment Advisory Board, and a special subsidy for members of Congress and their staffs to purchase health care on the exchange markets."
-------
I hope people don't forget the small business tan-salon owners.  That is a arbitrary, bullshit money grab.

Posted by: Serious Cat at September 27, 2013 09:29 AM (UypUQ)

173 54-44 final vote to strip defunding measure

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2013 09:30 AM (DmNpO)

174 Watched a number of episodes of the Breaking Bad marathon. Don't think I'll be watching anymore. Can someone tell me if Walter ever becomes a badass. I got to season 3 premier and he hadn't yet.


Yes he does. 


"Say my name!"

Posted by: EC at September 27, 2013 09:30 AM (GQ8sn)

175 161 "151 Just read that NBC news is going to be doing a week long cheerleading series for Obamacare"
---
In addition to the 3+ year one they've already had underway?

Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at September 27, 2013 01:28 PM (7mQyC)



This morning, the hack weatherman on NBC's 'The Weather Channel' was holding up a copy of the latest UN global warming report for multiple segments

Posted by: Sam Houston at September 27, 2013 09:30 AM (Pr6hk)

176 #AlecBaldwinBarillaCommercial "I want you to choke to death on Barilla lasagna"

#AlecBaldwinBarillaCommercial "After a day of kicking fag ass photographers, I work up an appetite that only Barilla pasta can satisfy"

#AlecBaldwinBarillaCommercial "I'm going to put my foot up your fucking fag ass, then Tweet about it over a plate of Barilla spaghetti"

Posted by: kbdabear at September 27, 2013 09:31 AM (/9IC1)

177 we STILL don't exist!!

Posted by: mythical "GOP Establishment" at September 27, 2013 09:31 AM (5ikDv)

178 What I don't get is how insurance company execs could possibly be in favor of Obamacare? Are they so stupid as to not realize his end goal is the bankruptcy of private insurance companies?

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at September 27, 2013 09:31 AM (HDgX3)

179 how fucked is the IT implementation of the exchanges going to be on October 1st?

The small business ones won't be open until Nov 1.

The Spanish-language (!) ones won't be open until "mid-October."

http://is.gd/f2tBxB

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at September 27, 2013 09:31 AM (/kI1Q)

180 Hollowpoint - you sound like an establishment Republican. Complete with the snide remarks.

Snide remarks?  On AoS?

The horror.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at September 27, 2013 09:31 AM (SY2Kh)

181 why do they not call out the name of the senator seconding the motion?

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 27, 2013 09:31 AM (6J+oK)

182 Someone was arguing yesterday that repealing the Medical Device Tax was a perfect showing of crony-capitalism. It amazes me that folks fail to understand that it isn't the COMPANIES who pay those taxes.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2013 01:28 PM (DmNpO)

 

No  it would only be crony capitalism if another competitor benefited from the government intervention.   Seems that taxed or not,  all the medical device companies were going to be treated the same and would of course share any  tax  costs with their customers. 

Posted by: polynikes at September 27, 2013 09:31 AM (m2CN7)

183 Now voting to pass Mikulki's bill to fund the govt through Nov 15th.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2013 09:31 AM (DmNpO)

184 Mikulski

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2013 09:32 AM (DmNpO)

185 No, keep him where he is, or better yet Gov of Texas. Posted by: KG at September 27, 2013 01:08 PM (p7BzH) Do I hear a 'President of Texas' Speaking as a Texan, seconded!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2013 09:32 AM (ix+5k)

186 I hope people don't forget the small business tan-salon owners. That is a arbitrary, bullshit money grab. Posted by: Serious Cat at September 27, 2013 01:29 PM (UypUQ) __________ And only affects white people.....

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at September 27, 2013 09:32 AM (HDgX3)

187 This morning, the hack weatherman on NBC's 'The Weather Channel' was holding up a copy of the latest UN global warming report for multiple segments

Posted by: Sam Houston at September 27, 2013 01:30 PM (Pr6hk)

 

 

Classic - hope to see him holding it in one of the several blizzards the Northeast gets this year in the worst winter since the 1970's.

Posted by: tofer732 at September 27, 2013 09:32 AM (z3MpN)

188 No it would only be crony capitalism if another competitor benefited from the government intervention. Seems that taxed or not, all the medical device companies were going to be treated the same and would of course share any tax costs with their customers. *** That's how I understand it as well.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2013 09:32 AM (DmNpO)

189 I hope people don't forget the small business tan-salon owners. That is a arbitrary, bullshit money grab.

After four years of race-baiting and white-bashing, that doesn't seem arbitrary at all.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at September 27, 2013 09:32 AM (/kI1Q)

190 I set the hashtag #AlecBaldwinBarillaCommercial in Twitter

I've run out of good ideas if any of you Morons want to get the hashtag going

Posted by: kbdabear at September 27, 2013 09:32 AM (/9IC1)

191 Posted by: EC at September 27, 2013 01:27 PM (GQ8sn) That is the mothership from ID4 on the chart. Not the battleships.

Posted by: RWC at September 27, 2013 09:32 AM (fWAjv)

192 It's over. I am done. 8-(

Posted by: Patrick in Michigan at September 27, 2013 09:32 AM (OhrW4)

193 So in your professional estimation, on a scale of 0 to Sandra Fluke, how fucked is the IT implementation of the exchanges going to be on October 1st? Nuclear Fluke. There are so many unknown requirements (Secretary HHS shall deem blah blah blah) it's guaranteed to fail. With the "roll it out on time, we'll fix it in production" model, it'll fail spectacularly and expensively. I guarantee you they're just testing whether certain known scenarios work. They don't even know what to test, really beyond a lot of handwavey guesswork. Nuclear. Fluke.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 27, 2013 09:33 AM (yETln)

194 180 What I don't get is how insurance company execs could possibly be in favor of Obamacare? Are they so stupid as to not realize his end goal is the bankruptcy of private insurance companies?

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at September 27, 2013 01:31 PM (HDgX3)


Somebody in a thread from yesterday -- maybe Rockmom? -- suggested that the end game is for single payer, with insurance companies administering the whole thing and taking their profits that way. They thus have no incentive to fight it and every incentive to assist.

Posted by: joncelli at September 27, 2013 09:33 AM (RD7QR)

195 There was a massive rainbow all the way to work this morning, 13 miles.  It was the lower third of the northern leg of the arch.  Don't believe I've ever seen one that broad.  Is this heaven?  No, it's Iowa.

Posted by: Mazzuchelli at September 27, 2013 09:34 AM (piR98)

196 Snide remarks? On AoS?

The horror.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at September 27, 2013 01:31 PM (SY2Kh)

 

actually they weren't snide or witty.  Just name calling.   You usually can at least be witty with your insults.   Not that time.   

Posted by: polynikes at September 27, 2013 09:34 AM (m2CN7)

197 I hope people don't forget the small business tan-salon owners. That is a arbitrary, bullshit money grab. *** Or, as Snooki so aptly put it, a tax on white people.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2013 09:34 AM (DmNpO)

198 Shallow knowledge of C? Come sit in the desk across from me. The guy they filled that desk with--to test software--has a Mech Eng degree and no software background at all except a couple of classes that used Matlab. And he doesn't show up on Fridays. Awesome. Sounds like a real winner.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 27, 2013 09:34 AM (yETln)

199 So Valve created one of the worst looking controllers of all-time

http://tinyurl.com/naupf5c

Posted by: The Dude at September 27, 2013 09:34 AM (vJdyz)

200 Islamists at work again. First they murder women and children. Now they are taking over the Miss World Pageant. I guess if they don't get their way they will shoot the contestants, behead them, throw them from balconies and other horrendous acts because we didn't appease them enough.

>
Muslim hardliners have threatened to hijack the competition despite major concessions from the government and organizers.

The bikinis that have been a pageant hallmark were replaced with more conservative sarongs three months ago, after a small but vocal group complained that showing too much skin would be offensive to the world's more populous Muslim country. But that only temporarily quieted protests over the event, which holds its internationally televised finale on Saturday.<

Posted by: Marcus at September 27, 2013 09:34 AM (xXyjO)

201  ‏@j_strong sign of the chaos: there is now disc among GOP reps over whether CR at $988 b is illegal under BCA

@j_strong fwiw, I don't think the concern over $988b is a broad, widespread concern. They voted for that 1 wk ago. But disc is occurring.

@ChadPergram House GOP hopes to post text of new CR later today. House GOP Conf would meet Sat at noon. Perhaps Rules mtg & flr debate later Sat.

Posted by: Miss80sBaby at September 27, 2013 09:35 AM (YjDyJ)

202 I do believe that Boehner's heart is in the right place- that he opposes Obamacare as much as anyone else.

But if he can't build a consensus and keep members on in line and on the same page, then yeah- time to let someone else take the helm.  This is turning into a giant clusterfuck.  Again.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at September 27, 2013 09:35 AM (SY2Kh)

203 Ours only cost $100,000,000 dollars and counting. Not one flu shot or well baby doctor exam paid for out of that money--just IT costs to build our exchanges for the five states in which we do business. Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes at September 27, 2013 01:25 PM (kXoT0) Is it going to be able to go live and fully functional on October 1st or is your IT department collectively doing this: http://bit.ly/1aqsyXx

Posted by: alexthechick - Bring the SMOD at September 27, 2013 09:35 AM (VtjlW)

204 I hope people don't forget the small business tan-salon owners. That is a arbitrary, bullshit money grab. Posted by: Serious Cat at September 27, 2013 01:29 PM (UypUQ) __________ And only affects white people..... Really, really, white people...

Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2013 09:35 AM (ix+5k)

205 Somebody in a thread from yesterday -- maybe Rockmom? -- suggested that the end game is for single payer, with insurance companies administering the whole thing and taking their profits that way. They thus have no incentive to fight it and every incentive to assist. *** This. The insurance companies aren't going anywhere. The govt cannot administer the program itself.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2013 09:35 AM (DmNpO)

206 Somebody in a thread from yesterday -- maybe Rockmom? -- suggested that the end game is for single payer, with insurance companies administering the whole thing and taking their profits that way. They thus have no incentive to fight it and every incentive to assist. Posted by: joncelli at September 27, 2013 01:33 PM (RD7QR) ______________ And if the execs think they - and not Democrat henchmen - will be the ones running the single payer system, they're higher than fuck.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at September 27, 2013 09:35 AM (HDgX3)

207
Once you realize that's a stupid, uninformed opinion borne from a tinfoil-wearing reactionary mindset, you might better understand what they're doing and why.

Sen McCain, is that you?

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at September 27, 2013 09:35 AM (sCynV)

208 203 So Valve created one of the worst looking controllers of all-time http://tinyurl.com/naupf5c Posted by: The Dude at September 27, 2013 01:34 PM (vJdyz) Ohhhhh the fun I could have

Posted by: Dandy Sandy Fluke at September 27, 2013 09:36 AM (fWAjv)

209 Shallow knowledge of C? Come sit in the desk across from me. The guy they filled that desk with--to test software--has a Mech Eng degree and no software background at all except a couple of classes that used Matlab. Forget Mech Eng. At least (if they have any software knowledge) they can usually pick it up fast. Spare me from "Software Engineering" grads. No, cupcake. Writing a shopping cart for that project you turned in your senior year is not "an accomplishment." Yes, you'd better F'ing know (if you're trying to get a C# job) what an F'ing Generic is and tell me why you'd use one.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at September 27, 2013 09:36 AM (/PCJa)

210 But if he can't build a consensus and keep members on in line and on the same page, then yeah- time to let someone else take the helm. This is turning into a giant clusterfuck. Again. *** There were two articles floating on Twitter today about how he is a quiet genius in his weakness. No kidding. They wrote that.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2013 09:36 AM (DmNpO)

211 Oh and notice "small but vocal".

I don't think that means what they are saying.

Do we care if it's a "small" yet heavily armed group bent on murder and mayhem? Does small really matter with despots and murderers?

Posted by: Marcus at September 27, 2013 09:37 AM (xXyjO)

212

I do believe that Boehner's heart is in the right place- that he opposes Obamacare as much as anyone else.

 

If Boner's heart was in the right place, he would know that being photographed golfing with the dog-eating crackhead and instantly jumping up to be his lapdog over Syria would be poison to the base.  Fuck him.  He's just another tax-fatted pig swilling at the trough.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 27, 2013 09:37 AM (zF6Iw)

213 203 So Valve created one of the worst looking controllers of all-time

http://tinyurl.com/naupf5c

Posted by: The Dude at September 27, 2013 01:34 PM (vJdyz)


Darth Vader's Mini-Me?

Posted by: joncelli at September 27, 2013 09:37 AM (RD7QR)

214

There were two articles floating on Twitter today about how he is a quiet genius in his weakness.

No kidding. They wrote that.

 

 

 

Must have been the same people complementing Obama for his Syria strategy.

Posted by: tofer732 at September 27, 2013 09:37 AM (z3MpN)

215 And if the execs think they - and not Democrat henchmen - will be the ones running the single payer system, they're higher than fuck. Many of them *are* Democrat henchmen.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at September 27, 2013 09:37 AM (/PCJa)

216

I'm going to put my foot up your fucking fag ass, then Tweet about it over a plate of Barilla spaghetti

------- ----- --------- -----------

That one got me, could have been cumulative.   Thanks for the laugh.  

Posted by: Beagle at September 27, 2013 09:38 AM (sOtz/)

217 Ours only cost $100,000,000 dollars and counting. Not one flu shot or well baby doctor exam paid for out of that money--just IT costs to build our exchanges for the five states in which we do business.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil
.............
I assume you guys are pretty big.. but how long can you survive if young people say fuck it to the mandate and rather pay the fine?

I'm assuming the bigger insurers will offer some of the most competitive rates, but I could be wrong.  That should attract the oldest, sickest people with the most/worst pre-existing conditions, especially considering employers with sick and mature pools start dumping them on to the exchanges.  Yikes.. this could get brutal really quick.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at September 27, 2013 09:38 AM (f9c2L)

218 what is the reasoning at This point for Delaying for another year of implementation of aca by republicans or anyone for that matter?

how does that work for us in any way ?
not snark

Posted by: willow at September 27, 2013 09:38 AM (nqBYe)

219

The Insurance Executives are not looking at the long term prospects, which seem ironic as an insurance company.   They are just seeing the anticipated  increase in premium dollars because of the subsidies and additional  policyholders.  

 

 

Posted by: polynikes at September 27, 2013 09:38 AM (m2CN7)

220 If Boner's heart was in the right place, it'd be in a jar on my mantle.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2013 09:38 AM (ix+5k)

221 That is the mothership from ID4 on the chart. Not the battleships.

Posted by: RWC at September 27, 2013 01:32 PM (fWAjv)



No it isn't.  The pic on the chart is the smaller battleship that detaches from the main mothership that Smith and Goldblum nuke in the end. 


Look at the superstructure on the right side.  That's the battleship.

Posted by: EC at September 27, 2013 09:39 AM (GQ8sn)

222 actually they weren't snide or witty. Just name calling. You usually can at least be witty with your insults. Not that time.

True, but there's a limit to the degree of Teh Crazy we should tolerate.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at September 27, 2013 09:39 AM (SY2Kh)

223 I know I mentioned this yesterday, but the starship chart does not include the Spacing Guild mover ships. One of those ships is large enough to take up two frames. Posted by: EC at September 27, 2013 01:27 PM (GQ8sn) The ship chart claims to be complete, is horribly incomplete, and frankly it would be nearly impossible to make a complete one. Just claiming it was complete should prompt someone to make up a new one. But it was even missing a lot of Star Trek ships, some really obvious Stargate ships (or they located them oddly, misidentified a few, and frankly if you're going to include Eve or Halo you need Star Trek Online, The X series especially X3, and probably Homeworld, Mass Effect, Starcraft, etc. And I didn't see Andromeda either. Might have been hidden somewhere but well-hidden. Frankly if you say you did a *complete* something it helps to be within light years of complete. Just say "we updated this and added more ships" and don't go all OMG PERFECT and maybe people won't think you're a troll. Maybe. Some people would claim that picking apart the chart is nerdy, but there is no other point to the chart in the first place.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at September 27, 2013 09:39 AM (qyfb5)

224 Oh, now you can decide when another commenter can come or go, depending on whether or not the commenter agrees with you. Nice to know.

Posted by: mrp at September 27, 2013 01:25 PM (HjPtV)

 

 

Jumping to conclusions and flexing teh internet muscles is the way many get their exercise.  This place is like a gym without all of the sweat and the bad smells.

 

*sniffs*

 

Well, about the smells....

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Outrage Outlet Happy Hour! Cocktails of Betrayal 50% Off! at September 27, 2013 09:39 AM (hLRSq)

225 And if the execs think they - and not Democrat henchmen - will be the ones running the single payer system, they're higher than fuck. Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at September 27, 2013 01:35 PM (HDgX3) Useful Idiots.

Posted by: J. Stalin at September 27, 2013 09:39 AM (bb5+k)

226 what is the reasoning at This point for Delaying for another year of implementation of aca by republicans or anyone for that matter? Read up-thread what some of the Horde and/or their families are going to have to pay, just in premiums, thanks to this POS bill. And now, if they say "Huh? That's more than I'm going to spend in a year," they're subject to a penalty for "not paying their fair share."

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at September 27, 2013 09:40 AM (/PCJa)

227 Not one flu shot or well baby doctor exam paid for out of that money--just IT costs to build our exchanges for the five states in which we do business.

Well that's the point, isn't it?  Destruction of wealth and human potential.  If you can get a checkup for your baby, you don't need anyone to promise to help you get a checkup for your baby.

Just like Cash for Clunkers.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at September 27, 2013 09:40 AM (/kI1Q)

228 Many of them *are* Democrat henchmen. Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at September 27, 2013 01:37 PM (/PCJa) __________ Even if this the case, their thinking is fucked up. Single payer won't be here overnight. It will take years of Obamacare to implode. During this time, health insurance companies will lose billions of dollars. And in this interim the executives of the insurance companies will be fired. So what these people are betting on is that in 10 years, President Hillary will appoint them to run the Department of Health Insurance, after they've led their respective insurance companies into bankruptcy? Is that really a bet you'd take?

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at September 27, 2013 09:40 AM (HDgX3)

229 175 54-44 final vote to strip defunding measure

Switch a handful of D votes and Reid is unsuccessful. But I heard there was not a lot of outside pressure on the vulnerable red-state Democrats.

Posted by: Miss80sBaby at September 27, 2013 09:40 AM (YjDyJ)

230 224.... Rimshot http://tinyurl.com/2d3ndht

Posted by: Lee Leffingwell at September 27, 2013 09:40 AM (MhA4j)

231 This place is like a gym without all of the sweat and the bad smells. *sniffs* Well, about the smells.... Posted by: Mikey NTH Been to the barrel lately??

Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2013 09:41 AM (ix+5k)

232 I think if it was implemented without delay it is more likely to be rescinded or defunded. You can't fix this piece of shit.

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman at September 27, 2013 09:41 AM (T0Pku)

233 The greatest one most recently was when I applied for a "Back-end C# position" and was rejected because I wasn't a front-end, ASPX UI guy. Yay! I have a story a bit like that. I was interviewing for a small startup and the job was C#. They brought in a couple of .NET programmers to ask me questions and those guys did the situational questions (how would you handle a Dev that didn't have time to work on your bug). Then they brought in two Java guys who proceeded to write a bunch of Java file read code on the board and asked me what was wrong with the implementation and how to fix it. I proceeded to ask them about forty "what does this do" questions, then fixed the code. They rejected me because of that coding portion.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 27, 2013 09:41 AM (yETln)

234 Funniest thing I've seen in a long time: Last evening at the gym, a Muzzie in full-Burqa working out, or trying to. That was one miserable looking, sweaty, uncomfortable Muslima, I tell you what. I had to avert my eyes to keep from laughing out loud. Last seen trudging miserably into a spin class after a failed attempt at using an ab roller while dressed in her Hefty Bag. I hope her fucking Burqa got caught in the spokes of her spin bike.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at September 27, 2013 09:42 AM (7ObY1)

235 In WA state, all insurance rates under Obamacare are the same for all insurance companies. There is no more free market for health insurance. It is a defacto govt run program. Only choice you have, is which insurance company's letterhead do you want on the statement. Aside from that, it's all identical.

Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at September 27, 2013 09:42 AM (HDgX3)

236 And in this interim the executives of the insurance companies will be fired. At which point they'll either a) retire in luxury (complete w/ company-paid insurance for the rest of their lives) or b) Get hired as CEO at some other insurance company that just fired its CEO.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at September 27, 2013 09:42 AM (/PCJa)

237 Software testing? Testing? Really?  People do that? BEFORE sending it out to customers?  Holy shit.. what a novel idea.  I always thought the clients were the testers!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry - Software 'Engineer' at September 27, 2013 09:42 AM (f9c2L)

238 But it was even missing a lot of Star Trek ships, some really obvious Stargate ships (or they located them oddly, misidentified a few, and frankly if you're going to include Eve or Halo you need Star Trek Online, The X series especially X3, and probably Homeworld, Mass Effect, Starcraft, etc.


The updated one has the Homeworld and Starcraft ships.  No Mass Effect ships though.

Posted by: EC at September 27, 2013 09:42 AM (GQ8sn)

239 Fuckweed McNumnuts is on CNN here at the TexMex joint. CNN got Bachmann so their viewership can point at the crazy woman.

Posted by: Mr. Dave at September 27, 2013 09:42 AM (+9dyn)

240 "And if the execs think they - and not Democrat henchmen - will be the ones running the single payer system, they're higher than fuck."

Come on.  I understand that the Dems think Big Business = Republicans because they repeat it so often but we should know a little better. 

Posted by: Shoot Me at September 27, 2013 09:42 AM (qiXMt)

241 Nood up!

Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2013 09:42 AM (ix+5k)

242 what is the reasoning at This point for Delaying for another year of implementation of aca by republicans or anyone for that matter? how does that work for us in any way ? not snark *** Two camps: First: All it does is delay the pain of implementation until after 2014 and may cost us the election. Second: It's a measure to hold off on the suffering, one delay after another, until we can retake the Senate and/or the WH.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at September 27, 2013 09:42 AM (DmNpO)

243 Ace is up!

Posted by: Brother Cavil at September 27, 2013 09:42 AM (naUcP)

244 Portman and Toomey are probably  the two most knowledgeable members of the Senate on economics.  Both voted no on cloture, and neither are "teh crazy"

Posted by: tofer732 at September 27, 2013 09:43 AM (z3MpN)

245 time to follow Lincoln's advice “The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.” a vote to delay for a year masks the problems, I will gladly sacrifice the increased premiums to further the cause. A vote to delay also distracts from the illegal actions of the president waiving portions of the LAW without congressional action.

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 27, 2013 09:43 AM (6J+oK)

246 Look at the superstructure on the right side. That's the battleship.

Posted by: EC at September 27, 2013 01:39 PM (GQ8sn)


Indeed it is, horribly out of scale.

Posted by: [/i][/b]KG at September 27, 2013 09:43 AM (p7BzH)

247 Software testing? Testing? Really? People do that? BEFORE sending it out to customers?

If it goes in an aircraft engine, yeah. 

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at September 27, 2013 09:44 AM (/kI1Q)

248 Ace could be lying in a coma in his own urine and no one would know. Does his mom read his blog? I remember a long time ago Ace disappeared for almost a month.

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman at September 27, 2013 09:44 AM (T0Pku)

249 ObamCare will likely destroy private insurance, but true "single payer" will destroy our currency.

If you put everybody on MediCare/MediCaid, you're going to see a run on the dollar.  We won't even be able to pay the interest on our debt in a few years, and then health care becomes a universal entitlement?  When does the world figure out that the combined GDP of nearly every nation won't be able to pay back our debt?

I do think the GOP though needs to come up with plans beyond just repealing ObamaCare to make health care affordable, because everything is not going to fall in place after it falls apart.

Posted by: McAdams at September 27, 2013 09:44 AM (ib6E+)

250 Read up-thread what some of the Horde and/or their families are going to have to pay, just in premiums, thanks to this POS bill. And now, if they say "Huh? That's more than I'm going to spend in a year," they're subject to a penalty for "not paying their fair share."

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) MFM Delenda Est at September 27, 2013 01:40 PM (/PCJa)


yes i see how it's going to kill/destroy many of us financially, definitely my family  and my kids  families at the costs that have been indicated by others in here .

so why are we delaying this action?  If we know this will happen  to us,  we KNOW it. why is it delayed?

shouldn't we allow this so America wakes up?

another election?



Posted by: willow at September 27, 2013 09:44 AM (nqBYe)

251

Fuckweed McNumnuts is on CNN here at the TexMex joint.

 

That could be anybody.  Can you narrow it down a bit?  Mrs. F McN or Mr. F McN?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 27, 2013 09:44 AM (zF6Iw)

252 Toomey is one of my Senators I just sent this note via email Senator Toomey, I am writing to express my sincere gratitude for maintaining your principled position with regard to the Senate votes on H.J.RES.59. It was refreshing to see one of my senators voting his conscious and standing his ground on the vote to invoke cloture, and the subsequent votes. I am truly disappointed with your colleagues whom voted to invoke cloture, and then voted to provide themselves political cover by voting against the amendment and the final passage. Regards,

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 27, 2013 09:44 AM (6J+oK)

253 Insurance companies make their money by investing the  incoming cash flow.  There is potentially another 30 million new policyholders that will provide that cash flow either through their own purchases or government subsidies.   I think that is what these executives are thinking.   They also wrongly believe that Obamacare will allow them to control costs.   Or maybe they're not and you will see a reduction in approved care. 

Posted by: polynikes at September 27, 2013 09:44 AM (m2CN7)

254 There were two articles floating on Twitter today about how he is a quiet genius in his weakness.

No kidding. They wrote that.

I understand that the opposite approach (Tom "The Hammer" DeLay) isn't always ideal either, but we saw the same publicly aired clusterfuckery dissension during the last debt limit debacle.

If it's limited to conference calls where they debate and decide what approach to take- fine.  That's how it should work.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at September 27, 2013 09:44 AM (SY2Kh)

255 239 - Next time snap a video or some photos of it.

Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at September 27, 2013 09:45 AM (7mQyC)

256 KBDaBear ‏@kbdabear 2m

#AlecBaldwinBarillaCommercial "I love a good bowl of Barilla bowtie pasta. And beating up fags

#AlecBaldwinBarillaCommercial "Little queens are toxic, but not the ingredients in Barilla marinara"

Posted by: kbdabear at September 27, 2013 09:45 AM (/9IC1)

257 do not get me wrong. this is devastating , but what does delaying the burn do at this point?

Posted by: willow at September 27, 2013 09:45 AM (nqBYe)

258 is there anything We can do to change this ? ever ?

Posted by: willow at September 27, 2013 09:46 AM (nqBYe)

259 I just e-mailed our company's health insurance rep.
He's a bitter clinger too, he'll give me the straight scoop on my fate in the Obamacares sweepstakes.

I hope.

 

Posted by: dananjcon at September 27, 2013 09:46 AM (wmU4G)

260 polnikes i believe insurance companies were a big part in  writing the aca?

Posted by: willow at September 27, 2013 09:47 AM (nqBYe)

261 I assume you guys are pretty big.. but how long can you survive if young people say fuck it to the mandate and rather pay the fine?  Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at September 27, 2013 01:38 PM (f9c2L)

You assume correctly, if we were publicly traded, which we are not, we would be the same size as Coca Cola.  For us, it is not about the young people and the individual mandate, we had to build the exchanges to be allowed to sell insurance in the individual space that first year, which would be fatal, because we think that once people get their insurance that first time they will stick with what they got.  With a lot of our group business going to the exchanges, we had to be there.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes at September 27, 2013 09:47 AM (kXoT0)

262 I hope.


Posted by: dananjcon at September 27, 2013 01:46 PM (wmU4G)

please clue us in when you find out.

Posted by: willow at September 27, 2013 09:47 AM (nqBYe)

263 and final passage along party lines... I need the list of R senators that are too dumb to understand the procedural vote to invoke cloture forfeited their only chance to tactically seize the initiative and fully debate the amendment. final vote on cloture means that a large number of R Senators voted to invoke cloture. and all of those assholes will be all over the sunday media claiming they voted against the CR.

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 27, 2013 09:48 AM (6J+oK)

264

Great Moments in SETTLED SCIENCE:

Aristotle
"Fleas are formed from dust, and maggots arise out of dead flesh. Read a book once in a while. But, don't bother reading my books because there's nothing to color."

John Dalton
"All atoms of a given element are exactly the same, and can neither be divided nor destroyed. Quite unlike your trailer park the next time a tornado comes rumbling through."

Empedocles
"Aphrodite lit the fire in the human eye which shone out from the eye making sight possible. Try graduating from high school first, then we can have an intelligent debate about this."

Aristotle
"Vacuums are not possible. The only people who say otherwise are paid shills for Big Oil."

Democritus
"Iron atoms have little hooks, and salt atoms taste pointy. Why are some people so afraid of science?"

Ptolemy
"Thanks to the ground-breaking research being done on "epicycles", we can now say with more certainty than ever that the Earth is the center of the Universe. Only religious nut-jobs refuse to see that."

Aristotle
"A body sinks or floats on water because of it's shape. Try turning off Fox news with all their pro-density propaganda."

Aristarchus of Samos
"Obviously, the Sun is the center of the Universe. And planets are just like giant race cars circling Talledega. Is that simple enough for you?"

Copernicus
"Don't blame them for thinking the Earth was the center of the Universe back then. They were ignorant. They weren't as enlightened as we are today. Thanks to science, we now know that the Sun is the center of the Universe."

Albert Einstein
"I'll put this in a way even you religitards can understand. God does not play dice with the Universe."

Isaac Newton
"While I was discovering Aether, you were doing your cousin."

Ernest Rutherford
"Atoms contain a very tiny impenatrable core. I would make an analogy about "knowledge" and "skulls" , but you mouth-breathers would be too ignorant to get it."

Newton
"I solved Gravity. If I have seen further it is because I am surrounded by dwarfs. Probably the results of cousin-marriage...."

Universal
"Everything is made up of four elements, fire, water, earth, and air. When you learn to count to 4 this will all make sense."

"Bad air causes disease. That's why the overwhelming consensus of scientists have chosen to name the disease "Mal-aria".

"The overwhelming consensus of alchemists are "extremely certain" that it is possible to turn lead into gold. Unfortunately, we need a philosopher's stone. And creating a philospher's stone is going to require ALOT of gold. And ALOT of windmills. Don't ask..."

Posted by: qzy at September 27, 2013 09:48 AM (petUV)

265 On the call, Cruz told them that Boehner was making a mistake, and urged his friends to fight until the end on the CR.... ht - flopping aces via NRO Posted by: Harry Reid (P) at September 27, 2013 01:20 PM (fWAjv) Wait wait, I was specifically told that Cruz was a friendless, forever alone pariah, ala "sit down, John" Adams. Now you're telling me he has actual friends? The deuce you say!

Posted by: LizLem, disgusted with one of her senators but loving the other at September 27, 2013 09:49 AM (8wqqE)

266
I think if it was implemented without delay it is more likely to be rescinded or defunded. You can't fix this piece of shit.

Posted by: Jesse Pinkman at September 27, 2013 01:41 PM (T0Pku)


I'd rather see them invalidate all waivers, exemptions, perks, and delays. Though I don't believe that's possible in a funding bill. Ditto for delaying it for a year. I think...anyone know for sure?

Posted by: Sticky Wicket at September 27, 2013 09:49 AM (sCynV)

267 Yea's 54 Nays 44

Posted by: Strategic Corporal USMC at September 27, 2013 09:50 AM (6J+oK)

268

Posted by: rickb223 at September 27, 2013 01:41 PM (ix+5k)

 

 

Nope.  I heard that the last guy in there was actually enjoying himself.

 

*shudders*

 

 

Do not want to know.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Outrage Outlet Happy Hour! Cocktails of Betrayal 50% Off! at September 27, 2013 09:50 AM (hLRSq)

269 Andromeda is on the chart,helps to zoom in.The guy is supposed to add Dune ships and others at some point.

Posted by: steevy at September 27, 2013 09:51 AM (9XBK2)

270 Derak,

I'm so sorry for you. I'm glad you survived, and I'll be praying for you and everyone out there who's like you that you don't get sick again. This is criminal.

My mother's on the phone with the Blue Cross guy right now. She barely even gets a subsidy, and she's retired and on social security (under 65 tho, so no medicare yet). But he did tell her who she's paying for. She pays for people earning less than $20,000, who get all the services she can't, for $50 a month. She pays $700, they pay $50. Wonderful.

I've been through a lot, but I don't think I've ever felt so violated in my life. This is like getting raped. No, scratch that, it's like watching someone you love get raped. For nothing. This is for absolutely nothing.

I hope that our brave Senators who just voted for cloture know that they have the blood of everyone who can't get care now on their hands. I'm gonna call my fucking "representatives" and tell them that. Who cares if I get an audit.

Posted by: WolfinNC at September 27, 2013 09:52 AM (Vvg+J)

271 polnikes i believe insurance companies were a big part in writing the aca?

Posted by: willow at September 27, 2013 01:47 PM (nqBYe)

No, they were not.  It was in large part written by an Obama crony.  I forget his name, but, he is not a free market guy.  What the insurance companies have been doing is try to keep the regulations implementing ACA from being worse than they would to be otherwise.  Sometimes we win on that, sometimes we don't.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes at September 27, 2013 09:53 AM (kXoT0)

272 I'm assuming the bigger insurers will offer some of the most competitive rates, but I could be wrong.  Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at September 27, 2013 01:38 PM (f9c2L)

We will offer the rates that we are allowed to offer by the each State's Insurance Commissioner.  Do you even know who yours is or what their platform may be?  You will want to know that from now on...

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes at September 27, 2013 09:57 AM (kXoT0)

273 I normally avoid making a big deal over nothing but in this instance, since someone with some talent spent an impressive amount of his time making that spaceship chart, I thought I would point out that at least two somewhat obvious ships are missing from his chart - whatever spaceship humans built and were ziping around in in sg something or other, also sg universe ship is missing. I am embarrassed I know this, however, given how little I know about these things whoever forgot to put them in shlould hide their face in shame.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2013 10:01 AM (Z9EHQ)

274 whatever spaceship humans built and were ziping around in in sg something or other, also sg universe ship is missing.


The Stargate ships are there, from the movie and shows. 

My beef is with the scale of some of the ships.  The ID4 ship is completely wrong.

Posted by: EC at September 27, 2013 10:05 AM (GQ8sn)

275 I have a feeling we will eventually find out obamacare was all about revenge, especially from a racial perspective. If not revenge then about achieving some sort of justice equality, and or parity. If you look at who is getting it the worst it is people that have jobs and insurance. more whites have jobs and insurance than minorities; save probably for asians. whether it is simply a matter of screwing whitey or more of a shake things up introduce some chaos, uncertainty, and dislocation into the system and see if minorities are better off whenever everything settles, I am unsure. heck, it may be that having everyone on a 29.5 hour work week is a frenchish solution to unemployment - 35 hour work week. employed are going to have fewer hours so employers will hire more people to have enough hours and do the job. no amount of stupidity or duplicity, in any combination, is beyond obama and his evil minions.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2013 10:07 AM (Z9EHQ)

276 The Stargate ships are there, from the movie and shows. My beef is with the scale of some of the ships. The ID4 ship is completely wrong. Posted by: EC at I am pretty sure they are not there, I saw some but not the ones I mentioned, certainly not the universe ship.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2013 10:09 AM (Z9EHQ)

277 I am pretty sure they are not there, I saw some but not the ones I mentioned, certainly not the universe ship.


The Universe ship is missing, but they have the other ones.

Posted by: EC at September 27, 2013 10:10 AM (GQ8sn)

278 I am pretty sure they are not there, I saw some but not the ones I mentioned, certainly not the universe ship. The Universe ship is missing, but they have the other ones. Posted by: EC Sigh, so now you made me look it this up and intake more informatino I am ashamed of. I did not see either the promethus class or daedalus class. both are very boxy looking ships, kind of a conex containers in space.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2013 10:16 AM (Z9EHQ)

279 I did not see either the promethus class or daedalus class. both are very boxy looking ships, kind of a conex containers in space.


Ok, those two aren't there for some reason but the Asgard and Lantean ones are in there, along with the Goauld ones. 

Posted by: EC at September 27, 2013 10:18 AM (GQ8sn)

280 Ok, those two aren't there for some reason but the Asgard and Lantean ones are in there, along with the Goauld ones. Posted by: EC at September 27, 2013 only bringing it to the attention of our morons because I noticed, and as interesting as their absence is it is to me, more interesting that I noticed and I have no idea what most of the show on the chart are, much less the ships. someone fucked up big time.

Posted by: yankeefifth at September 27, 2013 10:24 AM (Z9EHQ)

281 only bringing it to the attention of our morons because I noticed, and as interesting as their absence is it is to me, more interesting that I noticed and I have no idea what most of the show on the chart are, much less the ships.

someone fucked up big time.



NERD!!!!!!!!

Posted by: EC at September 27, 2013 10:27 AM (GQ8sn)

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