November 22, 2013

California Rejects Obama's Magical "Fix" for Cancelled Policies. 1 Million Set To Lose Coverage On January 1
— DrewM

California is often touted as an ObamaCare success. Nearly 1/3 of registrants/shoppers/people who Googled ObamaCare (or however they are measuring it) came from California about 80,000 in total. Of course this "success" is made up mostly of old and sick, so hop aboard the Death Spiral Express!

Now the state has rejected the illegal and unworkable plan to let 1 million plus Californians keep their policies.

Unlike in other states where the insurance commissioners are making the decisoin on Obama's newest scheme, it's the management of the exchange itself who made the call in California.

But in California, although the state's insurance commissioner, Dave Jones, strongly favored Obama's fix, he said he needed the state's new insurance exchange, Covered California, to release insurers from contractual obligations that they cancel policies that did not comply with the law by year end.

Covered California's board decided on Thursday not to allow people to stay in non-compliant plans beyond the end of the year.

"Covered California has spent a lot of time structuring a marketplace that's best for consumers," the exchange's executive director, Peter Lee, told the board before it voted on Thursday.

On Thursday, Jones called Covered California's decision a "disservice to California's consumers," but said there was nothing more he could do.

Huh, it's almost like they had a financial incentive to force people into their crappy programs to subsidize the old and sick who are signing up in their faux market place.

Oh and if you're keeping score...

Covered California has signed up 80,000 uninsured and forced 1.1 million out of their plans. That means there are 1,020,000 MORE uninsured people in California now than before this whole thing started.

Welcome to Liberal World!

Posted by: DrewM at 09:31 AM | Comments (381)
Post contains 318 words, total size 2 kb.

1 Allah, over at HotAir had some interesting thoughts, as well.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 22, 2013 09:33 AM (IXrOn)

2 It's as if they don't think they'll ever give up power.

Posted by: RS at November 22, 2013 09:33 AM (YAGV/)

3

Covered California has signed up 80,000 uninsured and forced 1.1 million out of their plans. That means there are 1,020,000 MORE uninsured people in California now than before this whole thing started.

Welcome to Liberal World!


Yeah, but it's more fairer this way and shit.

Posted by: joncelli at November 22, 2013 09:34 AM (RD7QR)

4 All hail the one.

Posted by: Flapjackmaka at November 22, 2013 09:34 AM (1FgrF)

5

"... spent a lot of time structuring a marketplace that's best for consumers".

 

Why is that not good enough for you, proles?  We're doing this for your benefit.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at November 22, 2013 09:34 AM (A0sHn)

6 High Speed Fail

Posted by: garrett at November 22, 2013 09:34 AM (Sc8YH)

7 When can we start using the Piano wire?

Posted by: D-Lamp at November 22, 2013 09:34 AM (bb5+k)

8

"Covered California has spent a lot of time structuring a marketplace that's best for consumers," the exchange's executive director, Peter Lee, told the board before it voted on Thursday.


On Thursday, Jones called Covered California's decision a "disservice to California's consumers," but said there was nothing more he could do.



So by doing a disservice to their consumers, Covered California is doing what's best for it's consumers?   Or is it that by doing what's best for it's consumers Covered California is   doing a disservice to     its consumers?


I'm so confused.      Better start drinking.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 09:34 AM (4df7R)

9 ARRGH, apostrophe possessive fail.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 09:35 AM (4df7R)

10 Suck it California. 

Posted by: Guzalot at November 22, 2013 09:35 AM (NgrLd)

11 I don't get it. Can't Brown just, like, fire the insurance commissioner? That would fix it, right?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 22, 2013 09:35 AM (aDwsi)

12 My prediction? PAIN

Posted by: Barry 'Clubber Lang' Soetoro at November 22, 2013 09:36 AM (Pr6hk)

13
REPEAL

IMPEACH

Posted by: Parker at November 22, 2013 09:36 AM (YkW3i)

14 @9 MWR Grammar and punctuation are oppressive, don't you know.

Posted by: RS at November 22, 2013 09:36 AM (YAGV/)

15 California?  Never heard of it

Posted by: Charlie Gibson at November 22, 2013 09:36 AM (Pr6hk)

16 FSA is not going to be pleased.

Posted by: cajun caret at November 22, 2013 09:37 AM (UZQM8)

17 I don't get it. Can't Brown just, like, fire the insurance commissioner? That would fix it, right?

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 22, 2013 01:35 PM (aDwsi)



Why go to all that trouble?  Why   can't   Governor Moonbeam   wave his magic moonbeam    wand and fix  everything?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 09:37 AM (4df7R)

18 *clicks on stopwatch* Four hour schadenboner alert starts now!

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at November 22, 2013 09:37 AM (VtjlW)

19 Good news, Comrades! This increased chocolate ration now comes with a mandatory free enema!

Posted by: RoyalOil at November 22, 2013 09:37 AM (VjL9S)

20 I've got a magical fix... want me to tweet a pic to you

Posted by: Danger, Carlos Danger - Agent Double O Naught at November 22, 2013 09:37 AM (Pr6hk)

21
Grammar and punctuation are oppressive, don't you know.

Posted by: RS at November 22, 2013 01:36 PM (YAGV/)



Part of the Republican     #WarOnWomen, clearly.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 09:37 AM (4df7R)

22 Yeah, but those policies were substandard, so they didn't really lose anything.  Every time I hear that, in my mind I hear, Brawndo's got electrolytes. 

Posted by: no good deed at November 22, 2013 09:37 AM (HsJeN)

23 2 It's as if they don't think they'll ever give up power. Posted by: RS at November 22, 2013 01:33 PM (YAGV/) Rick Santorum for HHS secretary. For spite!

Posted by: AmishDude at November 22, 2013 09:38 AM (T0NGe)

24 I'm so confused. Better start drinking. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at November 22, 2013 01:34 PM (4df7R) *sidles over* Hi. How you doin'?

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at November 22, 2013 09:38 AM (VtjlW)

25 *steps up onto soapbox* *points at LIVs* *ahem* FUCKING. TOLD. YOU. SO. *steps down*

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2013 09:38 AM (da5Wo)

26 HOW dare they embarrass the Preznit like this

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at November 22, 2013 09:38 AM (Pr6hk)

27 On JFK day? Shame on you, r-ace-sits.

Posted by: occam's braissere at November 22, 2013 09:39 AM (Kxgza)

28 This doesn't add up. The insurance commissioner can cancel any policy he wants. This is CYA for the commissioner who wants Obama Care and is passing the buck to the committee. He's elected the others aren't. Fuck CA.

Posted by: Nip Sip at November 22, 2013 09:39 AM (0FSuD)

29 part of Allahpundit's argument over at HA In fact, dig down into the numbers that California’s released about its new exchanges enrollees and you’ll find that the heavy majority of them earn too much to qualify for subsidies. That suggests that most of them are people who used to have coverage and then were forced to buy an O-Care plan when that coverage was dropped. Give them the option now of un-canceling their old plan and not only will you lose some revenue, you’ll spoil a rare instance of O-Care working exactly as it’s intended. All of which is why, I think, Obama secretly wants state commissioners (and the California exchange) to reject his “fix.” It’s better for the law if they do and it sets them up to be the bad guy when disgruntled consumers ask why they can’t have their old coverage back. That’s what the fix was really about, of course — shifting blame. The fact that the state’s insurance commissioner sided with O knowing/expecting/quietly hoping that the exchange board would reject O’s fix suggests that he’s not above passing the buck either when there’s an easy way to do so.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 22, 2013 09:39 AM (IXrOn)

30 *sidles over*


Hi. How you doin'?

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at November 22, 2013 01:38 PM (VtjlW)



Depressed and yearning for SMOD.   You?


*shoves Valu-Rite through USB*

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 09:39 AM (4df7R)

31 Don't worry citizens, His Imperial Highness President Obama will order an emergency air-drop of subsidies

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 22, 2013 09:39 AM (aDwsi)

32 "this "success" is made up mostly of old and sick"


Gonna get busy 'round here!

Posted by: The Obamacare Death Panel at November 22, 2013 09:39 AM (YWXTN)

33 It appears, after all is said and done, fewer people will have insurance after Obamacare is fully implemented than did before it's passage.

Posted by: Dr Spank at November 22, 2013 09:39 AM (P1WNR)

34

Really hoping to hear some tales of woe from my fellow-CA ultra-lib family members this Thanksgiving/Christmas. I will

 

Laugh

In

Their

Faces

Posted by: hindmost at November 22, 2013 09:39 AM (t6Jvs)

35 Hey, Obama told those 1,020,000 that they can't continue to pay for stuff that doesn't improve their health. Or something.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 22, 2013 09:39 AM (JRmiD)

36 @21 MWR Exactly. The apostrophe is really a phallic symbol created by The Patriarchy to subjugate female types.

Posted by: RS at November 22, 2013 09:39 AM (YAGV/)

37 24 I'm so confused. Better start drinking. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at November 22, 2013 01:34 PM (4df7R) ------------------ *sidles over* Hi. How you doin'? Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at November 22, 2013 01:38 PM (VtjlW) *saunters over* Ladies. I have tequila. And am medically insured. *waggles eyebrows*

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2013 09:40 AM (da5Wo)

38 Davey Jones:  California's least favorite Monkee.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 09:40 AM (0HooB)

39 If we don't get them signed up, how can we deny treatment

Posted by: IPAB at November 22, 2013 09:40 AM (Pr6hk)

40 I'm working with one of the states, trying to get enrollment transactions to their carriers. Not exactly live yet (even though it "went live" 10/1). From deep within the bowels, it's really not all that pretty out here, folks.

Posted by: akula51[/b][/i][/s] at November 22, 2013 09:40 AM (l2h4p)

41 Screw California.

Posted by: maddogg at November 22, 2013 09:40 AM (xWW96)

42
I don't get it. Can't Brown just, like, fire the insurance commissioner? That would fix it, right?
Posted by: Mike Hammer



It's an elected, not appointed, office in California.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at November 22, 2013 09:40 AM (kdS6q)

43 *shoves Valu-Rite soaked cotton ball through USB*

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 22, 2013 09:40 AM (aDwsi)

44 Let me be clear. I will be duly outraged when I learn about this on TV.

Posted by: President Barack Obama at November 22, 2013 09:40 AM (7ObY1)

45 Good news, everybody!

We're losing money on every person who signs up but we'll make up for it in volume!

Posted by: Dem Biz Wiz! (And SEO expert) at November 22, 2013 09:41 AM (VjL9S)

46 *saunters over*


Ladies.


I have tequila. And am medically insured.


*waggles eyebrows*

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2013 01:40 PM (da5Wo)



WOO, party at BC's place!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 09:41 AM (4df7R)

47 We make up for the shitburger with a nice order of syphilis fries!

//Chef B O'Bama

Posted by: sven at November 22, 2013 09:41 AM (9jfyN)

48 California has a right wing climate of hate!!!eleventy!!!

Posted by: MFM at November 22, 2013 09:41 AM (xKK9v)

49 38 Davey Jones: California's least favorite Monkee. Marcia Brady found him "dreamy."

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at November 22, 2013 09:41 AM (7ObY1)

50 High Speed Fail Posted by: garrett


We have a winner!  Please report to the front desk and choose one item from the Treasure Chest.

Posted by: The Obamacare Death Panel at November 22, 2013 09:41 AM (YWXTN)

51 They should have hired Mike Nesmith to be the insurance commissioner.  He was always the smart one.

Posted by: Fart at November 22, 2013 09:42 AM (2aB+q)

52 2 RS at November 22, 2013 01:33 PM (YAGV/)

Okay so take them at their word....

"then what?"

Posted by: sven at November 22, 2013 09:42 AM (9jfyN)

53 This is going according to plan, imho. I agree with Allah.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 22, 2013 09:42 AM (IXrOn)

54 The Obama 'Fix' is nothing but an empty, unenforceable fiat designed to provide political cover, so I don't blame anyone who rejects that as an option. But the California bureaucrats seem to have a taste for blood and they're not about to call off their feeding frenzy in any case.

Posted by: --- at November 22, 2013 09:42 AM (MMC8r)

55 *shoves Valu-Rite soaked cotton ball through USB*

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 22, 2013 01:40 PM (aDwsi)



Okay, so, I'm snacking on Frosted Mini Wheats, cuz that's how I roll.   And those  mofos HURT when you cough them up through your nose because SOMEONE   made you laugh.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 09:42 AM (4df7R)

56 I heard from a good source that 50 years ago today, Harry Reid was spotted on the grassy knoll in Dallas.  When questioned about the rifle he was found to be holding,  Reid  said it was a gift that he'd planned to give the young president, and now he wouldn't be able to do it because evil tea-partiers had just killed the president.

Posted by: Havedash at November 22, 2013 09:42 AM (BMEZ0)

57

Covered California has signed up 80,000 uninsured and forced 1.1 million out of their plans. That means there are 1,020,000 MORE uninsured people in California now than before this whole thing started.

Welcome to Liberal World!

**



Maybe they weren't told that 5th grade math was prerequisite to socially engineering the world.

Posted by: dananjcon at November 22, 2013 09:43 AM (wmU4G)

58 Let the rebranding continue!   I still kinda like "Chumpcare," but it removes Obama as a direct reference. 

Posted by: Fritz at November 22, 2013 09:43 AM (UzPAd)

59 51 They should have hired Mike Nesmith to be the insurance commissioner. He was always the smart one. --- Here we come Walkin' down the street Get the funniest looks from Everyone we meet

Posted by: Peter Tork at November 22, 2013 09:43 AM (/Crba)

60 But we can still smoke weed right?

And herb is, totally medicinal , bro.

You go, Barack!

Four more years ! Four more years !

Posted by: millions of California LIVS at November 22, 2013 09:43 AM (5ikDv)

61 51 They should have hired Mike Nesmith Nifong to be the insurance commissioner. He was always the smart one. Posted by: Fart at November 22, 2013 01:42 PM (2aB+q)

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2013 09:43 AM (da5Wo)

62 Good news, everybody! We're losing money on every person who signs up but we'll make up for it in volume! Posted by: Dem Biz Wiz! --------------- The write-offs will be awsome! Kramer on write-offs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEL65gywwHQ

Posted by: Mike Hammer at November 22, 2013 09:43 AM (aDwsi)

63
Happy Thanksgiving CA!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 22, 2013 09:43 AM (iGPSR)

64 Well, all this drinking talk made me realize it's Friday so I started. Click on my nic for some drinking music.

Posted by: Nip Sip at November 22, 2013 09:43 AM (0FSuD)

65 Those people are moving to Texas anyway.  You should see all the construction going on here... dozens of office buildings going up in the DFW area.  Massive housing developments... It's the predicted 'California Proposition 30 Boom'

Posted by: I'm Rick Perry, bitch at November 22, 2013 09:43 AM (Pr6hk)

66
Welcome to Liberal World!

----


I do not feel very fucking welcome.

Posted by: fixerupper at November 22, 2013 09:44 AM (nELVU)

67 Of course, most if not all of those dropped will sign up for insurance in the exchanges, and many of them will be young and healthy, but keep trying!

Posted by: Fat Ghost of Ted Kennedy at November 22, 2013 09:44 AM (yHRnI)

68 Not impressive: Waggling your eyebrows

Impressive: Licking your eyebrows

Posted by: Parker at November 22, 2013 09:44 AM (YkW3i)

69 "A majority of those who have applied for health care through Covered California are English speakers, Los Angeles County residents and between ages 55 to 64, who likely qualify for Medi-Cal, according to figures released Thursday."

From an article in today's Sanbernardino Sun.

Posted by: Lamont Cranston at November 22, 2013 09:44 AM (Qp+vN)

70 In fact, dig down into the numbers that CaliforniaÂ’s released about its new exchanges enrollees and youÂ’ll find that the heavy majority of them earn too much to qualify for subsidies. Aren't the subsidies based on national poverty level? That would put high cost-of-living states (like California) at a disadvantage.

Posted by: --- at November 22, 2013 09:44 AM (MMC8r)

71 Davey Jones: California's least favorite Monkee. LOL, I saw him open for U2 in LA. Bono was singing a montage of Monkey's song with him. It was bizarre. I think it was the POP tour.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 22, 2013 09:44 AM (IXrOn)

72
Googling around, the Democratic California Insurance Commissioner supported the extension, the Covered California Board did not.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at November 22, 2013 09:45 AM (kdS6q)

73 So healthcare was driving down the road. It was getting a little rough but nothing a little tune-up might fix. Then Obama gets behind the wheel and drives it into a ditch. Now, I actually liked my healthcare but how in the hell am I going to pull it out of that ditch.

Posted by: robtron at November 22, 2013 09:45 AM (gsy5B)

74 It's a good thing Bobby Kennedy never went to Dallas.

What?

You've got to be kidding me.  California did what?!

Posted by: Dang at November 22, 2013 09:45 AM (YWXTN)

75 @52 Sven I find it difficult to believe they could be so stupid. I worry that they don't care because they've cooked up something to never lose again, and this is all kibuki. But, then I'm a "glass is not only half empty but it's dirty and has a chip in it which cut my lip" sort of person.

Posted by: RS at November 22, 2013 09:45 AM (YAGV/)

76 Maybe they weren't told that 5th grade math was prerequisite to socially engineering the world.

Posted by: dananjcon at November 22, 2013 01:43 PM (wmU4G)



"Well it damn well can't be 7th grade math, because that shit's hard."


- The Mocha Messiah

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 09:45 AM (4df7R)

77 Really hoping to hear some tales of woe from my fellow-CA ultra-lib family members this Thanksgiving/Christmas. I will Laugh In Their Faces This sucks. Screwed again. Both families, mine & the Mrs., are hard right. No 404Care fanatics. No one to make fun of.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2013 09:45 AM (ix+5k)

78

Awwww poor LIV's. Own the suckage.

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 22, 2013 09:45 AM (1cD5X)

79 Miss me yet, wingnuts?

Posted by: James from Plains at November 22, 2013 09:46 AM (Pr6hk)

80 But in California, although the state's insurance commissioner, Dave Jones, strongly favored Obama's fix, he said he needed the state's new insurance exchange, Covered California, to release insurers from contractual obligations that they cancel policies that did not comply with the law by year end.
=======

Oh goody!  Obama apologist vs. tin-pot demigod bureaucrats

A Perfect Storm of left-wing implosion!

*gets more popcorn*

Posted by: Nighthawk at November 22, 2013 09:46 AM (OtQXp)

81 40 I'm working with one of the states, trying to get enrollment transactions to their carriers. Not exactly live yet (even though it "went live" 10/1).

From deep within the bowels, it's really not all that pretty out here, folks.

Posted by: akula51 at November 22, 2013 01:40 PM (l2h4p)


I suggest an enema.

Posted by: joncelli at November 22, 2013 09:46 AM (RD7QR)

82 We need less Obamacare Exchanges and more Exchange Obama.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 22, 2013 09:46 AM (wtvvX)

83 "The so-called “young invincibles,” also applied for policies in October. Of the 30,830 state residents who enrolled during October, 22.5 percent, or about 6,900, were between 18 and 34 years old."

From the San Bernardino Sun.

Posted by: Lamont Cranston at November 22, 2013 09:46 AM (Qp+vN)

84 75 RS at November 22, 2013 01:45 PM (YAGV/)

If they want to engage in fraud and graft to tilt this nation communist we NEED a civil war.

Posted by: sven at November 22, 2013 09:46 AM (9jfyN)

85 Remember what I told you all the next spin is:

"Sure, it's a small number of people signing up now. But, think of a dent in your new car. It's just a small dent, but to you it's a big deal. That's what this is: It is a big deal that a small number of previously uninsured are now able to sign up."


Posted by: RoyalOil at November 22, 2013 09:47 AM (VjL9S)

86 Of course, most if not allof those dropped will sign up for insurance in the exchanges, and many of them will be young and healthy, but keep trying!

Posted by: Fat Ghost of Ted Kennedy at November 22, 2013 01:44 PM (yHRnI)



You'd think having brain cancer and ending up dead would make you a little smarter,    Teddy.  


Go back to Hell.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 09:47 AM (4df7R)

87 WTF, even Weasel Zippers is all-in on the JFK deification pRon today. It's like Bizarro World over there.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at November 22, 2013 09:47 AM (7ObY1)

88 Massive housing developments... It's the predicted 'California Proposition 30 Boom'

Posted by: I'm Rick Perry, bitch at November 22, 2013 01:43 PM (Pr6hk)


-----


.... where the lessons of why they moved in the first place will be totally lost on them and they will clamor for the same shit that FUBAR'd California in the first place.


Liberal Locusts

Posted by: fixerupper at November 22, 2013 09:47 AM (nELVU)

89

Davey Jones: California's least favorite Monkee.

LOL, I saw him open for U2 in LA. Bono was singing a montage of Monkey's song with him.

It was bizarre.

I think it was the POP tour. Posted by: artisanal 'ette


I saw Montage of Monkey open for Loverboy at the Ft. Worth Boat Show in '95.

Posted by: Dang at November 22, 2013 09:48 AM (YWXTN)

90 Democrats also sold Obamacare as an economy stimulator and a job creator.  Let's start seeing more attacks on Obamacare from that angle.  People, if they buy the new, more expensive plans, will have less discretionary money to spend... that's not going to stimulate the economy.  People are losing jobs and getting hours cut so companies can avoid having to provide coverage, the opposite of stimulating an economy.

We keep pounding them on the lost coverage and the price hikes, but how about the effects that logically follow from those things, which (just like quality of coverage and price of premiums) are the very opposite of what Democrats claimed when ramming Obamacare through.

Posted by: AAA at November 22, 2013 09:48 AM (hQJ+o)

91 I know it feels like you've been in the pipe for a long time, but you have only just begun.

Posted by: Andy Dufresne at November 22, 2013 09:48 AM (Pr6hk)

92
And:

The Exchange is an independent public entity within state government with a five-member board appointed by the Governor and the Legislature.

Two members are appointed by the Governor; one by Senate Rules Committee; and one by Speaker of the Assembly. The Secretary of the Health and Human Services Agency or another designee serves as an ex-officio voting member of the Board. Appointed members serve four year terms.



Set terms.  It's like the FCC.  They ain't going nowhere.

Although, since they all must be Dem friendly, surprising they didn't roll over.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at November 22, 2013 09:48 AM (kdS6q)

93 ObamaCare needs to be stuffed into Davey Jones' locker.

Posted by: Ian Galt at November 22, 2013 09:48 AM (QdOC1)

94 I love it when my marketplaces are structured! So much better than free marketplaces. Why, they had experts "structure" it for me so it's "best" for consumers! I'm a consumer! This way I get the best structured marketplace! Yaaay!

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at November 22, 2013 09:49 AM (ZPrif)

95 Officer brown : Did that californian just clench his buttocks ? Officer awkward : I believe he did . Officer brown : Give 'em the full roto rooter treatment right here on the public road .

Posted by: awkward davies at November 22, 2013 09:49 AM (WK8VM)

96 Barack Mainway...President, Mainway Insurance.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3dq9dxEf2c





Posted by: dananjcon at November 22, 2013 09:50 AM (wmU4G)

97 *saunters over* Ladies. I have tequila. And am medically insured. *waggles eyebrows* Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2013 01:40 PM (da5Wo) WOO, party at BC's place! Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at November 22, 2013 01:41 PM (4df7R) MWR, you realize this is a nefarious plot to get our clothes to fall off, yis?

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at November 22, 2013 09:50 AM (VtjlW)

98 Davey Jones: California's least favorite Monkee. LOL, I saw him open for U2 in LA. Bono was singing a montage of Monkey's song with him. It was bizarre. I think it was the POP Geritol tour. Fixed for accuracy.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2013 09:50 AM (ix+5k)

99 86 Hey Cali... Smell the Glove --- You should have seen the cover they WANTED to go with!

Posted by: Ian Faith at November 22, 2013 09:50 AM (/Crba)

100 I know more about healthcare than any healthcare professional.

Posted by: Preznit Death Spiral at November 22, 2013 09:50 AM (bUmSq)

101 MWR, you realize this is a nefarious plot to get our clothes to fall off, yis?


Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at November 22, 2013 01:50 PM (VtjlW)


*pauses*


...


So i should put my   pants back ON is what you're saying.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 09:50 AM (4df7R)

102 @93 Walmart has already put out a notice they expect lower sales because of health insurance cost of their customers and lower profits for the co. because of increased health care costs. So sending money to DC does not grow the economy? I am shocked!

Posted by: Nip Sip at November 22, 2013 09:51 AM (0FSuD)

103 100 *saunters over* Ladies. I have tequila. And am medically insured. *waggles eyebrows* Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2013 01:40 PM (da5Wo) WOO, party at BC's place! Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at November 22, 2013 01:41 PM (4df7R) MWR, you realize this is a nefarious plot to get our clothes to fall off, yis? --- Did someone say "Naked gingers"? Where's my camera?

Posted by: Ian Faith at November 22, 2013 09:51 AM (/Crba)

104 I saw Death Spiral Express open up for The Soup Dragons in 1994.

Posted by: phreshone at November 22, 2013 09:51 AM (Pr6hk)

105 Off, off, cricket-bat wielding sock.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at November 22, 2013 09:51 AM (/Crba)

106 They had a commission structure the marketplace! Isn't that wonderful! I bet it's organized and smooth, like a structured marketplace should be.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at November 22, 2013 09:51 AM (ZPrif)

107 Shit, what the fuck did I do?

Posted by: Zombie Davy Jones at November 22, 2013 09:52 AM (MMC8r)

108 @73
You only wish he fucking drove health care into a ditch.

No, the JEF plowed it into a redwood at 100MPH, rolled clear, sprayed it with gas from a firehose, lit it on fire, called in a pair of A-10s, stampeded a herd of longhorns across the scraps, sacrificed a goat and dropped a deuce on the remains.

That was on Tuesday.

Posted by: RoyalOil at November 22, 2013 09:52 AM (VjL9S)

109 So..... interesting that we have an unelected Board, making decisions of law and politics... THIS is how you have Plausible Deniability.... this is how those we elected can weasel out of being held responsible.... they CREATE a structure where they are no longer responsible... Kinda like the whole Fed Res Bank system... where we have unelected business folks who essentially control the dollar... Or the EPA... where its a board of appointed supposed scientists...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 22, 2013 09:52 AM (lZBBB)

110 WOO, party at BC's place! Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at November 22, 2013 01:41 PM (4df7R) BYOC! Bring your own Condoms

Posted by: Nip Sip at November 22, 2013 09:52 AM (0FSuD)

111 Baracky Road

Posted by: The Jackhole at November 22, 2013 09:52 AM (nTgAI)

112 109 They had a commission structure the marketplace! Isn't that wonderful! I bet it's organized and smooth, like a structured marketplace should be. --- What should be results of Glorious Five-Year Plan?

Posted by: Lemon Party Apparatchik at November 22, 2013 09:52 AM (/Crba)

113 Serves those crackas right.

Posted by: Reverend Wright at November 22, 2013 09:52 AM (Pr6hk)

114

you realize this is a nefarious plot to get our clothes to fall off, yis?

 

Moronettes, Tequila and Trampolines were made for each other.

Posted by: garrett at November 22, 2013 09:53 AM (Sc8YH)

115 Obamacare its a Baracky road

Posted by: The Jackhole at November 22, 2013 09:53 AM (nTgAI)

116 Off, off, cricket-bat wielding sock.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at November 22, 2013 01:51 PM (/Crba)



I'm sorry, but now I have this mental image of an   anthropomorphic gym sock running down a city street wielding a cricket bat,    ululating and    killing zombies.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 09:53 AM (4df7R)

117 They had a commission structure the marketplace!
Posted by: Flatbush Joe

Sounds like mall to me.  Which sometimes go out of business and get torn down.  *crosses fingers*



Posted by: Dang at November 22, 2013 09:53 AM (YWXTN)

118 прогресс!!

Posted by: RWC at November 22, 2013 09:53 AM (fWAjv)

119 What we need is a Civilization mod that implements Obamacare as an economic disaster.

Posted by: Jean at November 22, 2013 09:53 AM (CMlD4)

120 I'm sorry, but now I have this mental image of an anthropomorphic gym sock running down a city street wielding a cricket bat, ululating and killing zombies. --- Go ahead and write a script with that idea then sue Hollywood when a knockoff is inevitably made.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at November 22, 2013 09:53 AM (/Crba)

121

Well I'm one of the victims.  Current plan is to go commando for myself, get the cheapest non-HMO plan for the wife, develop an off-shoring strategy for assets should I get hit by a bus (she's a foreign citizen, in a pinch could go back there, and other than the house I'd transfer the assets there).  Not sure it will work. 

 

But boy will the trust lawyer be shocked if I decide to go to her with questions about it - presto! transformed from a law-abiding rules-following healthy "medical care averse" citizen who's always had catastrophic coverage (even in my 20s) and probably utilized about $500 worth of insurance coverage in my life (middle-aged) to ..... somebody trying to game and plan against the system like a productive business-owner in Argentina or Zimbabwe.

 

Both of us had a (bare-bones, always my approach) catastrophic plan for $300/month (goes to show that, even with the massive distortion and added costs of the frankenstein "insurance" market as it existed up to now, even in costly CA there were still affordable catastrophic plans).  New rates?  About $900 for the two of us - nice, cool tripling of costs.  Of course, for significantly less coverage.

 

Unlike some here, I don't plan to harangue my (politically) idiotic family at holiday events.  They're all typically Coastal Clueless - smart, successful, nice, and utterly clueless about their country's history, the sources of its prosperity, and completely in the thrall of the mythology and distortion that constitute "news" coverage.  No framework, and mostly non-facts.  And, of course, socially conditioned to support only Dems.  (darkly funny, the sister and her husband are very active Catholics, the sister hated teacher's unions when her kids were in school - yet these two vote exclusively for abortion freak extremists and wholly-owned tools of the teacher's union, that being the Dem Party of CA - ridiculous!).

 

 

Posted by: non-purist at November 22, 2013 09:54 AM (afQnV)

122 I'm in the cancelled group. My major medical for self and kids was $357 a month. I paid for it all by myself. New plans, with subsidy, cost me more. Its great. I pay more, you pay more. Affordable healthcare.

Posted by: california red at November 22, 2013 09:54 AM (7jrCM)

123 I didn't think my schadenboner could last four more hours.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 09:54 AM (0HooB)

124 Ah, it was Daydream Believer. How apropos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9m-hkvFDLk *it was with The Edge, not Bono... good times

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 22, 2013 09:54 AM (IXrOn)

125 Have our premiums gone down 3000% yet?

Posted by: --- at November 22, 2013 09:54 AM (MMC8r)

126

WROL

learn it, you're already livin it.

Posted by: Normal man spitting on his hands at November 22, 2013 09:54 AM (agLwc)

127 119 Off, off, cricket-bat wielding sock.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at November 22, 2013 01:51 PM (/Crba)

I'm sorry, but now I have this mental image of an anthropomorphic gym sock running down a city street wielding a cricket bat, ululating and killing zombies.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at November 22, 2013 01:53 PM (4df7R)


So Wednesday at your house, right? [ducks, runs]

Posted by: joncelli at November 22, 2013 09:55 AM (RD7QR)

128 Californians - Just ask Hanks, Travolta, Cruise, Streisand, Cher, Weinstein, etc. to pick up the slack for you.  They are multi-millionaires who championed Obama so send your health care bills to them.  I mean, according to dear leader, after awhile you've made enough money.

Posted by: Cheri at November 22, 2013 09:55 AM (G+Wff)

129 What's all the exchange talk?  I only got here because I googled "naked gingers".

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at November 22, 2013 09:55 AM (A0sHn)

130


*it was with The Edge, not Bono...

 

 

That guy can play the fuck out of an Em chord.

Posted by: garrett at November 22, 2013 09:55 AM (Sc8YH)

131 128 Have our premiums gone down 3000% yet? --- I spin you right round right round when you go down when you go down down...

Posted by: In$urance Premium$ at November 22, 2013 09:55 AM (/Crba)

132 We almost never talk about AOSHQ.

Posted by: Hot Air at November 22, 2013 09:56 AM (QM5S2)

133 Moronettes, Tequila and Trampolines were made for each other. Posted by: garrett at November 22, 2013 01:53 PM (Sc8YH) And todays show was brought to you by the number 1, and 3... and the Letter T...

Posted by: Big Bird at November 22, 2013 09:56 AM (lZBBB)

134 *pauses* ... So i should put my pants back ON is what you're saying. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at November 22, 2013 01:50 PM (4df7R) Woah woah woah that's just crazy talk.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at November 22, 2013 09:57 AM (VtjlW)

135 135 We almost never talk about AOSHQ. --- I think AP is still in therapy due to a rectal assault from a drunken Ewok.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at November 22, 2013 09:57 AM (/Crba)

136 Posted by: non-purist at November 22, 2013 01:54 PM (afQnV) Sorry to hear. And, from what we keep reading, if enrollment doesn't pick up, there will be another increase. And, taxes will hit everyone. More people will pushed into poverty. The impoverished will go into medicaid. And, the cycle of poverty will continue.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 22, 2013 09:57 AM (IXrOn)

137 The only people I feel sorry for are the CA 'rons and 'ettes who've been affected. And I mean that sincerely. The others can go piss up a rope.

Posted by: jakeman at November 22, 2013 09:57 AM (vH4YP)

138 "'Covered California has spent a lot of time structuring a marketplace that's best for consumers,' the exchange's executive director, Peter Lee, told the board before it voted on Thursday. " If it were a true "marketplace", we could elect to not participate and not have to worry about some sort of "penalty" hanging over our heads.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at November 22, 2013 09:57 AM (VVsZ2)

139 Winning!

Posted by: Tonic Dog at November 22, 2013 09:57 AM (ycrEg)

140 So Wednesday at your house, right? [ducks, runs]

Posted by: joncelli at November 22, 2013 01:55 PM (RD7QR)


*shin kicks as you speed by*


Scamp.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 09:57 AM (4df7R)

141 Those people are moving to Texas anyway.… It’s the predicted ‘California Proposition 30 Boom’ Texas really needs annual ads—just before elections—reminding people why the hell they moved. And then an orangutan saying “Right turn, Clyde.”

Posted by: Paid for by Citizens for Clyde the Orangutan at November 22, 2013 09:57 AM (QF8uk)

142 We almost never talk about AOSHQ. Posted by: Hot Air You should hear the shit we say about Tepid Air.......

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2013 09:57 AM (ix+5k)

143 Let me get this straight, by following the law Covered California does a disservice to the people. Wow. Wonder if that makes the evening news.

Posted by: tbodie at November 22, 2013 09:58 AM (x1L8S)

144 Walmart has already put out a notice they expect lower sales because of health insurance cost of their customers and lower profits for the co. because of increased health care costs.

So sending money to DC does not grow the economy?

I am shocked!

**


Hmmm maybe if we break Wallmart's windows?? Broken windows always grow the economy.


Posted by: dananjcon at November 22, 2013 09:58 AM (wmU4G)

145 I went to the grocery store and said I would like a "Silver" food package from the structured food market. But they didn't have anything like that at all! Instead it was a giant, chaotic cornucopia of food. Aisle after aisle. It was mostly decidedly not structure by a commission. How am I supposed to live like this? Am I supposed to select my own food? Who can do that? That's chaos, that's what that is. Sooo unorganized. Soo unstructured. What if I choose the wrong food? What if I buy too much candy or too many processed foods? I don't want to ever have to choose between more than 3 options -- good, better, and best. And I always choose the middle option anyway cause I'm no fancypants and no loser. I'm just a middle-class American. Like you! Thank god there are no platinum plans in my state. Platinum plans really should be left to important people -- like people who sit on commissions that structure marketplaces.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at November 22, 2013 09:58 AM (ZPrif)

146 No mention of TFG's one month employer mandate delay on Drudge??  He seems to be missing some big headlines.  I don't even remember seeing anything on the "fixed" unemployment numbers prior to the reelection of the Boy King either.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 22, 2013 09:58 AM (XB5Ak)

147 I think Butt Clench was at Summerfest this year.

Posted by: Roland THTG at November 22, 2013 09:59 AM (QM5S2)

148

That guy can play the fuck out of an Em chord.

 

Yeah, but that augmented 7th  gives him fits.

 

There was a concert with U2  and Bruuuuce on  the   telly   a couple of months back. Watching  teh   Edge attempt to play a solo was quite amusing.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 09:59 AM (0HooB)

149 OT - Crystal Magnum, of Duke Lacrosse rape hoax infamy, convicted of murder

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at November 22, 2013 09:59 AM (/Crba)

150 I have had much more then a little experience with medical insurance companies. They would place an order then ask for a form to be set. The typesetter would produce the form, then we would wait for approval. The ins co would run the form past some govt agency and seek approval. Then their own crew of lawyers would have to go over it with a fine tooth comb and make a change or two. Then it was back to the typesetter to make the revisions and generate additional proofs. Then we would have to produce a version in Spanish. This process would continue for months on end, as long as six months in some circumstances. Sometimes the cost for all of the alterations would be more costly then the final finished product. ObamaCare is doomed to fail, and there is no unsticky way out of this briar patch. Unfortunately, I think not just individuals, but the entire economy is going to take another nosedive as the inevitable consequence. [insert photoshop of Obama as Slim Pickens riding a thermonuclear bomb labelled 'ObamaCare' here]

Posted by: Lace Wigs [/i] at November 22, 2013 10:00 AM (UL/Aj)

151 If one person loses their coverage, it is a tragedy. If a million lose their coverage, it's a statistic.

Posted by: Baldy at November 22, 2013 10:00 AM (2bql3)

152

There was a concert with U2 and Bruuuuce on the telly a couple of months back. Watching teh Edge attempt to play a solo was quite amusing.

 

 

He wears a funny hat almost  as well as any guitarist, though.

Posted by: garrett at November 22, 2013 10:00 AM (Sc8YH)

153 Did you morons see some rapper said the health insurance policies cancelled by Obamacare were,  "predatory" and needed to be illegal?

Weapons grade stupid.

Posted by: Dang at November 22, 2013 10:00 AM (YWXTN)

154 [insert photoshop of Obama as Slim Pickens riding a thermonuclear bomb labelled 'ObamaCare' here] --- Change the picture so that he's bombing the DNC rather than a random target in Russia like Slim did.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at November 22, 2013 10:01 AM (/Crba)

155 Posted by: Flatbush Joe at November 22, 2013 01:58 PM (ZPrif) Apparently you missed the story of the Lady who was fined $10 because the lunch she sent with her kid to school did not have "grains".... The Guidelines are there....

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 22, 2013 10:01 AM (lZBBB)

156 ObamaCare is doomed to fail, and there is no unsticky way out of this briar patch.

----

Have you seen my plan for dealing with Iranian nukes????

Posted by: Barrack Obama at November 22, 2013 10:02 AM (nELVU)

157

I didn't even see that he was playing with Springsteen.

There must have been a lot of panic between those two when the time for the solo came around.

Posted by: garrett at November 22, 2013 10:02 AM (Sc8YH)

158 I bet California hired only the best, most qualified marketplace structurers on the market!

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at November 22, 2013 10:02 AM (ZPrif)

159

112So..... interesting that we have an unelected Board, making decisions of law and politics...

 

 

 

Oh look at this little prole. Thinks he's got rights and shit. The Great Unwashed never learn do they?

Posted by: The Marquis St. Evrémonde at November 22, 2013 10:02 AM (H84UO)

160 158 Posted by: Flatbush Joe at November 22, 2013 01:58 PM (ZPrif) Apparently you missed the story of the Lady who was fined $10 because the lunch she sent with her kid to school did not have "grains".... The Guidelines are there.... --- The insult to injury? The "grains" given to the children were Ritz crackers. I love some Ritz crackers but that's hardly what I'd consider part of a healthy lunch.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at November 22, 2013 10:02 AM (/Crba)

161 Unlike some here, I don't plan to harangue my (politically) idiotic family at holiday events. Ask them to subsidize your plans. WeÂ’re in a similar position. I have a $130 catastrophic plan from Anthem for my girlfriend, though I have a plan through work. Fortunately, weÂ’ve already made plans to move to Texas by the end of the year. WeÂ’re trying to lock in a non-exchange plan from Aetna through 2014.

Posted by: Paid for by Citizens for Clyde the Orangutan at November 22, 2013 10:03 AM (QF8uk)

162 152 Brandon In Baton Rouge at November 22, 2013 01:59 PM (/Crba)

I guess Mike Nifong's character witness didn't help?

Posted by: sven at November 22, 2013 10:03 AM (9jfyN)

163
And the Board's press release breaking down who's signing up thru the California exchange as of 11/19:

39% Medi-Cal
30% Subsidized
31% Unsubsidized

http://tinyurl.com/md2rfg5

So 7 to 3. And children enrolled in Medi-Cal through their parents aren't being netted into that. And the unsubsidized are no doubt heavily comprised of expensive to service pre-existing types.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at November 22, 2013 10:03 AM (kdS6q)

164 165 152 Brandon In Baton Rouge at November 22, 2013 01:59 PM (/Crba) I guess Mike Nifong's character witness didn't help? --- Nor did the Gang Of 80 professors from Duke.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at November 22, 2013 10:03 AM (/Crba)

165 I love some Ritz crackers but that's hardly what I'd consider part of a healthy lunch. I like your style, son.

Posted by: Andy Griffith at November 22, 2013 10:03 AM (vH4YP)

166 Aldous Huxley and CS Lewis died November 22, 1963.

Posted by: occam's braissere at November 22, 2013 10:03 AM (QZkRD)

167 Have you seen my plan for dealing with Iranian nukes????
Posted by: Barrack Obama

I saw the Iranian Nukes open for Joe King Carrasco in '83.

Posted by: Dang at November 22, 2013 10:04 AM (YWXTN)

168 Release me.

Posted by: The Boner of Schaden at November 22, 2013 10:04 AM (HgfyP)

169 So 7 to 3. And children enrolled in Medi-Cal through their parents aren't being netted into that. And the unsubsidized are no doubt heavily comprised of expensive to service pre-existing types. --- I swear I can hear water circling a drain from here...

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at November 22, 2013 10:04 AM (/Crba)

170 @77, my crazy lib cousins and aunt have refused to come to any family gathering since 2010 on the off chance of meeting me. I don't really care, but it sucks for my grandmother.

Posted by: sunny-dee at November 22, 2013 10:04 AM (EBoCD)

171 OT - Crystal Magnum, of Duke Lacrosse rape hoax infamy, convicted of murder

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge

 

There are many reasons to despise Geraldo but this one still sticks in my craw.  When this whole charade started, he stated on Fox that these guys were privledged white guys who were guilty of rape.  Never mind facts, etc.  Geraldo declared them guilty because they were white and were college students at Duke.  Racism indeed.

Posted by: Cheri at November 22, 2013 10:04 AM (G+Wff)

172 But Obamacare covers my medicinal pot, right? Right?!

Posted by: Californistan LIV at November 22, 2013 10:04 AM (6fSty)

173

Would Cheeze-It count as Grain and Dairy?

Posted by: garrett at November 22, 2013 10:04 AM (Sc8YH)

174 " ululating and killing zombies.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at November 22, 2013 01:53 PM"

+1 Internetz for the random use of 'ululating.'

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 22, 2013 10:05 AM (knoK7)

175 I think you're missing the math here, Drew.      They don't care about a million people losing their insurance, they care about 80 thousand new permanent democrat votes.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at November 22, 2013 10:05 AM (QA8q2)

176 Who knew California was such a Republican stronghold?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at November 22, 2013 10:05 AM (ozktE)

177 176 Would Cheeze-It count as Grain and Dairy? --- Not sure. A raspberry cheese danish, though? That's a three-fer.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at November 22, 2013 10:06 AM (/Crba)

178 If you like your Schadenboner, you can keep it for more than four hours.

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 22, 2013 10:06 AM (1cD5X)

179 Will ObamaCare cover my crystals and visits to my Natural Healing Shaman?

Posted by: Californian Dipshit at November 22, 2013 10:06 AM (MMC8r)

180 None of this will matter once the courts are packed

Posted by: Beto at November 22, 2013 10:07 AM (MhA4j)

181

I still would like to see the numbers split out of those that signed onto the exchanges between those who were uninsurable prior to Obamacare and those that simply  were  voluntarily uninsured and decided to sign up now.

 

I'm sure  out of those 80,000 that signed up,  not a  majority  of them  were prevented from  buying insurance prior to  Benghazicare. 

Posted by: polynikes at November 22, 2013 10:07 AM (m2CN7)

182
Aldous Huxley and CS Lewis died November 22, 1963.
Posted by: occam's braissere




Killed each other in a straight-razor fight.

Not many people remember that.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at November 22, 2013 10:07 AM (kdS6q)

183 I saw the Iranian Nukes open for Joe King Carrasco in '83. Posted by: Dang at November 22, 2013 02:04 PM (YWXTN) Dam.... I couldn't go.... but I heard it was a blast...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 22, 2013 10:07 AM (lZBBB)

184

Aldous Huxley  died November 22, 1963.

 

T.B.D.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLg4h-WmSPs

Posted by: LIVE at November 22, 2013 10:07 AM (Sc8YH)

185 183 None of this will matter once the courts are packed --- Did you say "packed"?!? Reggie packs me all the time!

Posted by: Barry McFuckstick at November 22, 2013 10:07 AM (/Crba)

186

180 176
Would Cheeze-It count as Grain and Dairy?

 

 

 

 

Hello!

Posted by: Bailey's Irish Cream at November 22, 2013 10:07 AM (6fSty)

187

Release the Krakenboner!

 

Shit.  Wait...I might have fucked that up.

Posted by: Zeus at November 22, 2013 10:08 AM (HgfyP)

188 Would Cheeze-It count as Grain and Dairy?

Posted by: garrett at November 22, 2013 02:04 PM (Sc8YH)


Dunno, but chocolate is clearly a    vegetable    since it comes from cacao beans.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 10:08 AM (4df7R)

189 128 Have our premiums gone down 3000% yet? Yes. Same as the choco ration's gone up.

Posted by: Minihealth at November 22, 2013 10:08 AM (U82Km)

190 Aldous Huxley and CS Lewis died November 22, 1963. Bummer. They never saw Doctor Who.

Posted by: Californian Dipshit at November 22, 2013 10:08 AM (MMC8r)

191 Although, since they all must be Dem friendly, surprising they didn't roll over.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at November 22, 2013 01:48 PM (kdS6q)

 

What's more important to most dems than the progressive agenda and being Obama's little sycophants?  Protecting their own power and positions in that agenda.  A delay would threaten their power and authority, can't have that.

Posted by: buzzion at November 22, 2013 10:08 AM (LI48c)

192 Dam.... I couldn't go.... but I heard it was a blast...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 22, 2013 02:07 PM (lZBBB)


---


Their rendition of "Blinded By the Light" was to die for.

Posted by: fixerupper at November 22, 2013 10:08 AM (nELVU)

193 152 OT - Crystal Magnum, of Duke Lacrosse rape hoax infamy, convicted of murder PRAISE GOD. I am shocked in Durham they convicted the slut.

Posted by: Nip Sip at November 22, 2013 10:09 AM (0FSuD)

194 And the Board's press release breaking down who's signing up thru the California exchange as of 11/19: 39% Medi-Cal 30% Subsidized 31% Unsubsidized http://tinyurl.com/md2rfg5 So 7 to 3. And children enrolled in Medi-Cal through their parents aren't being netted into that. And the unsubsidized are no doubt heavily comprised of expensive to service pre-existing types. Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at November 22, 2013 02:03 PM (kdS6q) Minus the ones that have only "enrolled" but won't actually pay.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 22, 2013 10:09 AM (IXrOn)

195 171 Release me.

Posted by: The Boner of Schaden at November 22, 2013 02:04 PM (HgfyP)


I laughed altogether too   loudly at this.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 10:09 AM (4df7R)

196

>>> Not sure. A raspberry cheese danish, though? That's a three-fer.

 

Chicken in a Biscuit with Vegetable Cream Cheese?

 

Posted by: garrett at November 22, 2013 10:09 AM (Sc8YH)

197 OT, sort of, but this line from Jonah Goldberg about Obama and the O-Care debacle is awesome:


"And that's where the hubris comes in. No matter what the circumstance, no matter the potential downside, no matter how loudly God is laughing at his plans, Obama ignorantly strides on in his giant hamster sphere of epistemic closure, thinking that whatever happens he'll be okay, because, "you've got me" as if that will make all the difference. And it never does."

Posted by: joncelli at November 22, 2013 10:09 AM (RD7QR)

198 All your health care are belong to us1!11!!!

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy!!11!!1! at November 22, 2013 10:09 AM (GjPnA)

199 Dunno, but chocolate is clearly a vegetable since it comes from cacao beans. I think we need legumes for dinner tonight.

Posted by: Paid for by Citizens for Clyde the Orangutan at November 22, 2013 10:09 AM (QF8uk)

200

Geraldo declared them guilty because they were white and were college students at Duke. Racism indeed.

 

 

My only good memory of Jerry Rivers is when he got knocked up side the head with a chair.

Posted by: Infidel at November 22, 2013 10:10 AM (O/fK8)

201 Aldous Huxley died November 22, 1963.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLg4h-WmSPs Posted by: LIVE



Is that a link to the video of the skateboard stunt that killed him?  They should have had that cheetah on a leash.  Tragic.

Posted by: Dang at November 22, 2013 10:10 AM (YWXTN)

202 How many of the young know that if they refuse the mandate, they won't get caught, and can pick up insurance on a need basis? That would surely tear it down if they only knew...

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 22, 2013 10:10 AM (IXrOn)

203 Welcome to Liberal World!



WooooHoooo....When do we start lighting parked cars on fire?

Posted by: Paladin at November 22, 2013 10:10 AM (QGbEp)

204

Need more fruit in your diet? What is brandy but fruit concentrated to get more of the fruity goodness so, drink up!

Posted by: Cicero Kids Chinese Physician at November 22, 2013 10:10 AM (6fSty)

205 Chicken in a Biscuit with Vegetable Cream Cheese?

Posted by: garrett at November 22, 2013 02:09 PM (Sc8YH)


----


Dipped in catsup for the fruit group win!!!!

Posted by: fixerupper at November 22, 2013 10:11 AM (nELVU)

206

You been here 4 owas! You go now!

Posted by: Schadenboner at November 22, 2013 10:11 AM (1cD5X)

207 Natural Healing Shaman opened for Hapshash and the Coloured Coat featuring the Heavy Metal Kids. The Family Dog, San Francisco, 1967

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at November 22, 2013 10:11 AM (7ObY1)

208 196 152 OT - Crystal Magnum, of Duke Lacrosse rape hoax infamy, convicted of murder PRAISE GOD. I am shocked in Durham they convicted the slut. --- I think the fact that she killed a black guy probably made it easier for them.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at November 22, 2013 10:11 AM (/Crba)

209 Crystal Magnum, of Duke Lacrosse rape hoax infamy, convicted of murder I guess the jury didn't buy the 'white boys did it' defense.

Posted by: --- at November 22, 2013 10:11 AM (MMC8r)

210 Huxley, Lewis and JFK arrive together at the pearly gates. St Peter says...

Posted by: occam's braissere at November 22, 2013 10:11 AM (QZkRD)

211 None of this will matter once the courts are packed

--

On a positive note, we're obviously no longer a nation of laws.  So there's that.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 22, 2013 10:11 AM (XB5Ak)

212 Heh

@charlescwcooke

Did the Left kill JFK because he was too conservative? #trollingtrollingtrollingrawhide

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at November 22, 2013 10:11 AM (KVY+w)

213 I saw the Hamster Spheres of Epistemic Closure open for Def Leppard in '08.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 22, 2013 10:12 AM (knoK7)

214 Release the Krakenboner!

Shit. Wait...I might have fucked that up.

Posted by: Zeus at November 22, 2013 02:08 PM (HgfyP)



"Yeah, and while we're at it, can we talk about that "Golden    Shower"   bullshit?  WTF?"


-Danae

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 10:12 AM (4df7R)

215 Crystal Gale got 14-17 yrs sounds light to me. http://tinyurl.com/lch7ush

Posted by: Nip Sip at November 22, 2013 10:12 AM (0FSuD)

216 Older or unhealthy people at high risk cannot afford to be without insurance even for a little while so they will make up the bulk of the early signees.  Even if their plan is several times what it was in cost it could still make economic sense for them to seek coverage.

We will have to wait for the penalties and compulsion to kick in for everyone else to see what they do.  As it is now the wise thing to do if you are young and healthy seems to be to wait and see if you can get a better deal once Obama is through making up whatever he thinks the law should be.  It is kind of like Russian Roulette at this point.   Everyone is calculating percentages based on imperfect knowledge.  We are watching Obama but bullets in and take them out of the gun while cackling wildly and spinning the chamber. 

But there is also the tar baby aspect.  Once you get into the Obamacare you may be mired in something you cannot get out of even if a better deal comes along later.  People may choose to hold out in hope the Republicans can take back enough of the government to set things aright.

As it is right now most people can't even get on the website to sign up so it is a moot point.  We will see if young people decide just to pay the penalty, or to ignore the penalty as well once things are functioning.  That decision is being made for them currently since buying a plan is not an option due to their being no mechanism to purchase one. 

The only thing Obama has been good at is creating a huge amount of uncertainty and more or less freezing the entire economy in place.  The only growth seems to be coming from the Treasury printing up more dollars and the CPI hiding the inflation since it doesn't take into account energy, food, housing etc... which is destroying wealth at an unprecedented rate.   We have a stock price bubble since all of that money has to go somewhere and corporations are able to charge whatever they want without fear of competition coming along since no one is going to create that competition in this climate of fear and cronyism.  Insurance companies certainly couldn't collude in the Obamacare forces them to do.  We are pretty much as screwed up as Europe now.

Ironically, the only thing saving us from being completely frakked is fracking.

Posted by: Thatch at November 22, 2013 10:12 AM (qYvEa)

217 "Covered California has spent a lot of time structuring a marketplace that's best for consumers," And by 'consumers' he really means 'suckers of cock'.

Posted by: t-bird at November 22, 2013 10:13 AM (FcR7P)

218 These rock and rollers don't know shit about health insurance.  I'm more partial to the Tony Banderas model of tyranny. 

When you want the best, why settle for rest?

Posted by: Fritz at November 22, 2013 10:13 AM (UzPAd)

219 @203 Nancy Grace said "Something happened in that house" She has never apologized. What a c*unt.

Posted by: Nip Sip at November 22, 2013 10:14 AM (0FSuD)

220 It all boils down to one thing: Obama will screw everyone over eventually.

Posted by: katya, the desinated driver at November 22, 2013 10:14 AM (DoZD+)

221 Dunno, but chocolate is clearly a vegetable since it comes from cacao beans. I think we need legumes for dinner tonight. Posted by: Paid for by Citizens for Clyde the Orangutan at November 22, 2013 02:09 PM (QF8uk) At the old office, a bunch of people were on Atkins. I was walking down the hall and heard this very earnest discussion about the best way to get protein.
I had to lean against the wall I was laughing so hard. It was even better when I got the what's so funny, why are you laughing questions.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at November 22, 2013 10:14 AM (VtjlW)

222 Unbelievable mess. Obama will live on in history for this massive screw-up particularly.

Posted by: MTF at November 22, 2013 10:14 AM (F58x4)

223 Crystal Gale got 14-17 yrs sounds light to me. Geez. 'Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue' was bad, but it wasn't THAT bad.

Posted by: --- at November 22, 2013 10:15 AM (MMC8r)

224 193 Bummer. They never saw Doctor Who. Mrs. Chronda i convinced that JFK was the Doctor. He was assassinated on the 22nd and regenerated to show up on the 23rd.

Posted by: Anachronda at November 22, 2013 10:15 AM (U82Km)

225 I think the fact that she killed a black guy probably made it easier for them. Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge

He was prolly tryin' get all up in her junk.  She get all stabby on him?

Posted by: Dang at November 22, 2013 10:15 AM (YWXTN)

226 Juan Williams was on The Five last night, and he was beside himself because he was invited to the WH for the journo-bully-talk. He was as proud as a peacock to drop "Jarrett's" name; that he had spoken to her, personally. He wasn't able to disclose anything that he was told, of course, but said they are full steam ahead, everything is going as planned. They only had to hold off a huge rollout that was supposed to occur after the website was up and running. I guess they have armies in place everywhere to do their dirty propaganda work. This isn't going anywhere, other than by some miracle - brawn, which we know the GOP does not have.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 22, 2013 10:15 AM (IXrOn)

227 REPEAL

IMPEACH

I believe Crucifixion is what is done to messiah's  

Posted by: Paladin at November 22, 2013 10:15 AM (QGbEp)

228 *is* convinced. Death to touchscreen "keyboards"!

Posted by: Anachronda at November 22, 2013 10:16 AM (U82Km)

229 BC - this tequila you are attempting to ply the gingers with.........it isn't grape tequila is it?

Posted by: Muad'dib at November 22, 2013 10:16 AM (KjlbF)

230 222 Nip Sip at November 22, 2013 02:14 PM (0FSuD)

Yeah something happened...she thought she'd get a pay off....

Nanzi Graceless....

Posted by: sven at November 22, 2013 10:16 AM (9jfyN)

231 But how many insurance policies were saved or created?

Posted by: Damiano the Economic Traitor at November 22, 2013 10:16 AM (j0wOO)

232 I believe Crucifixion is what is done to messiah's Posted by: Paladin at November 22, 2013 02:15 PM (QGbEp) I'll just be taking the rest of your apostrophes now.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at November 22, 2013 10:16 AM (VtjlW)

233
Another fun fact from that press relase.

Only 3.2% of the enrollees are Spanish speaking, of which 0.9% are subsided. This in a state officially 28.8% Spanish speaking, and in reality much higher.

So, that would indicate:

1.  Pretty much everyone in this state that trills their Rs in an illegal ineligible to sign up currently.

2. Apre le Amnesty -- good Lord the flood of sign-ups

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at November 22, 2013 10:17 AM (kdS6q)

234 "Covered California has spent a lot of time structuring a marketplace that's best for consumers," And by 'consumers' he really means 'suckers of cock'. Posted by: t-bird at November 22, 2013 02:13 PM (FcR7P) And by "consumers" he really means illegals. I bet there all kinds of twisted shit in their exchanges for the illegals.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 22, 2013 10:17 AM (IXrOn)

235 I saw the Iranian Nukes open for Joe King Carrasco in '83.

Posted by: Dang at November 22, 2013 02:04 PM (YWXTN)

Actually, any "older" San Antonio morons recall the Fearless Iranians from Hell?  Good times back in the day...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at November 22, 2013 10:18 AM (wtvvX)

236 Covered California has signed up 80,000 uninsured and forced 1.1 million out of their plans. That means there are 1,020,000 MORE uninsured people in California now than before this whole thing started.


Skewered California

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 22, 2013 10:18 AM (8ZskC)

237  Nancy Grace said "Something happened in that house"
Posted by: Nip Sip

Farts were lit.

Posted by: Duke Lacrosse Star at November 22, 2013 10:18 AM (YWXTN)

238 235 I believe Crucifixion is what is done to messiah's Posted by: Paladin at November 22, 2013 02:15 PM (QGbEp) I'll just be taking the rest of your apostrophes now. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at November 22, 2013 02:16 PM (VtjlW) Messiahs?

Posted by: Spartacus at November 22, 2013 10:18 AM (lZBBB)

239 "I'll just be taking the rest of your apostrophes now. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at November 22, 2013 02:16 PM"


First they came for the ampersands...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 22, 2013 10:18 AM (knoK7)

240 234 But how many insurance policies were saved or created? ---- teee heee heee

Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at November 22, 2013 10:18 AM (7mQyC)

241 Covered California's board, RACISTS

Posted by: Jean at November 22, 2013 10:18 AM (CMlD4)

242 Wall Street Journal ran a good opinion piece by someone whose mother was hit by Obamacare in Washington State. "How has it come to this?" she asked in one of our several talks over the past few weeks about what was happening. When she was a working mother and I was young, she easily carried health insurance for our whole family. "How have I fallen this far?"

Posted by: Paid for by Citizens for Clyde the Orangutan at November 22, 2013 10:19 AM (QF8uk)

243 Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at November 22, 2013 02:17 PM (kdS6q) Hey Gringo.... why pay for insurance when I can go to the Emergency room for FREE?

Posted by: Juan Valdez, California Resident at November 22, 2013 10:19 AM (lZBBB)

244 Covered California has signed up 80,000 uninsured and forced 1.1 million out of their plans. That means there are 1,020,000 MORE uninsured people in California now than before this whole thing started.







Barry Sheen: WINNING!!!

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 22, 2013 10:20 AM (1Jaio)

245 I'll just be taking the rest of your apostrophes now.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at November 22, 2013 02:16 PM (VtjlW)



Your just being mien because hes religiou's.

Posted by: Grammar Spider at November 22, 2013 10:20 AM (+H/11)

246 "they are full steam ahead, everything is going as planned."
Posted by: artisanal 'ette

Full scam ahead!

Posted by: Dang at November 22, 2013 10:21 AM (YWXTN)

247 http://tinyurl.com/mrqtyut

US Post Office "Holiday Stamps" Ad...has Kwanzaa, Hanukkah and uh no Christmas....

nice work America

Posted by: sven at November 22, 2013 10:21 AM (9jfyN)

248 Welcome to Liberal World!

Nobody who will answer the phone today is taking new patients.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at November 22, 2013 10:21 AM (ZKzrr)

249 Now that we've reformed your health care, is there anything else in your life you'd like us to fuck up for you?

Posted by: The Obama Regime at November 22, 2013 10:21 AM (8ZskC)

250

ancy Grace said "Something happened in that house"


Posted by: Nip Sip

Farts were lit.

 

Graham Crackers were defiled and  consumed.

Posted by: Fraternity Brother at November 22, 2013 10:21 AM (Sc8YH)

251 I had to lean against the wall I was laughing so hard. It was even better when I got the what's so funny, why are you laughing questions. Was it the ribald possibilities, or were they seriously worried about a lack of protein under Atkins?

Posted by: Paid for by Citizens for Clyde the Orangutan at November 22, 2013 10:22 AM (QF8uk)

252 Hey Gringo.... why pay for insurance when I can go to the Emergency room for FREE? When you work for cash, the IRS can't touch you.

Posted by: --- at November 22, 2013 10:22 AM (MMC8r)

253

" Potential shortfalls in enrollment for President Barack ObamaÂ’s health-care overhaul would put a 30 percent dent in projections for U.S. prescription-drug sales in 2017, a report from IMS Health Inc. shows. "

 

I work for a big pharma co and it seems the pharma industry will also get to eat a sh*t sandwich it richly deserves for supporting this abortion of a program.  Full story in nic

Posted by: McCool at November 22, 2013 10:22 AM (TQxRy)

254 >>>US Post Office "Holiday Stamps" Ad...has Kwanzaa, Hanukkah and uh no Christmas.... What? No Festivus? Racist!!

Posted by: George Costanza at November 22, 2013 10:22 AM (j0wOO)

255 The sheeple will calm down and walk slowly towards the light of CoveredCalifornia to be farmed.

They know that.

Posted by: PJ at November 22, 2013 10:23 AM (ZWaLo)

256
At the end of the day (whenever that day is), obamacare is really just medicare for others and it simply can't work.  Oh the US will go trillions more in debt to try to keep it afloat, but the states won't be able to handle their share.  Even with the coming rationing.


Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 22, 2013 10:23 AM (iGPSR)

257 Now that we've reformed your health care, is there anything else in your life you'd like us to fuck up for you?
Posted by: The Obama Regime

Oh,  I don't know... maybe the food supply?  Commies love fuckin' that up.

Posted by: Dang at November 22, 2013 10:23 AM (YWXTN)

258 C.S. Lewis' last words: Hold my beer, I'm gonna try something. The more you know .... ♫

Posted by: toby928© blurts at November 22, 2013 10:23 AM (QupBk)

259 US Post Office "Holiday Stamps" Ad...has Kwanzaa, Hanukkah and uh no Christmas....

nice work America


Why do you hate Gingerbread Day?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at November 22, 2013 10:24 AM (8ZskC)

260 Wall Street Journal ran a good opinion piece by someone whose mother was hit by Obamacare in Washington State.

--

She was on Megan Kelly's show last night, I think.  Was this the lady who was automatically dumped into Medicaid (when she got her congratulations! screen)?  I thought, "congratulations" like it's an award or something to be proud of?

Anyway, she said she didn't want to be on Medicaid; that it made her feel like a 2nd class citizen, that she wanted to pay her own way and that she didn't want to be corralled into long wait times with sub par doctors.  But it forced her into it and she had no choice.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 22, 2013 10:24 AM (XB5Ak)

261 US Post Office "Holiday Stamps" Ad...has Kwanzaa, Hanukkah and uh no Christmas.... Including Christmas wouldn't be inclusive.

Posted by: --- at November 22, 2013 10:24 AM (MMC8r)

262 Soylent ObamaCare is PEOPLE!!! It's PEOPLE!!!

Posted by: --- at November 22, 2013 10:25 AM (MMC8r)

263 So, in scanning through the comments I missed, I just need to know two things....is MWR pantsless and has AtC joined her?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2013 10:25 AM (da5Wo)

264 I thought, "congratulations" like it's an award or something to be proud of? --- The FSA considers it to be something to be proud of when you get free shit from the gub'ment.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at November 22, 2013 10:26 AM (/Crba)

265 US Post Office "Holiday Stamps" Ad...has Kwanzaa, Hanukkah and uh no Christmas....

nice work America


That's it.  I'm coming down there.

Posted by: Christ Almighty at November 22, 2013 10:26 AM (8ZskC)

266 US Post Office "Holiday Stamps" Ad...has Kwanzaa, Hanukkah and uh no Christmas....

Including Christmas wouldn't be inclusive.

Posted by: --- at November 22, 2013 02:24 PM (MMC8r)



Good one

Posted by: TheQuietMan at November 22, 2013 10:26 AM (1Jaio)

267 At the end of the day (whenever that day is), obamacare is really just medicare for others and it simply can't work. Oh the US will go trillions more in debt to try to keep it afloat, but the states won't be able to handle their share. Even with the coming rationing. Rationing - covered only on even or odd days.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2013 10:26 AM (ix+5k)

268 That's it. I'm coming down there.

Faster, plz.

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer at November 22, 2013 10:26 AM (ZKzrr)

269

I miss the California Raisins.  

Jerry Brown should issue all his official statements through them 

Posted by: garrett at November 22, 2013 10:27 AM (Sc8YH)

270 Crystal Gale Magnum did one thing. She made three Duke Lacrosse Players very rich. Duke settled with for $12 mill each and they are STILL suing City of Durham and expect to win a shit pot there. Word is the City will have to increase the property tax to pay the judgement. That $12 mill is tax free.

Posted by: Nip Sip at November 22, 2013 10:27 AM (0FSuD)

271 That's it. I'm coming down there.

Faster, plz.
Posted by: HeatherRadish™ needs a beer

Amen.

Posted by: Dang at November 22, 2013 10:27 AM (YWXTN)

272 You're looking at an old ad.  The updated one also has this year's Murder-an-Infidel Day stamp.

Posted by: USPS at November 22, 2013 10:27 AM (+H/11)

273 "Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2013 02:25 PM"

Well...it is Friday afternoon here at the Q....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 22, 2013 10:28 AM (knoK7)

274 After being punked by Harry Reid, Mitch "The Bitch" McConnell attacks the real enemies of Republicans.....the Tea Party.

http://tinyurl.com/mcsdeoj

McConnell said the Tea Party was ‘nothing but a bunch of bullies,’” the source said. “And he said ‘you know how you deal with schoolyard bullies? You punch them in the nose and that’s what we’re going to do

Posted by: Dr Spank at November 22, 2013 10:28 AM (P1WNR)

275 So, in scanning through the comments I missed, I just need to know two things....is MWR pantsless and has AtC joined her? You mean you missed it? T'was a beautiful sight to behold. All the gamboling about & trampolining....

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2013 10:28 AM (ix+5k)

276 That $12 mill is tax free. Posted by: Nip Sip

That's it!  I need to go back to school,  learn how to play lacrosse and hang out with murderous hookers.

Posted by: Dang at November 22, 2013 10:29 AM (YWXTN)

277 Was it the ribald possibilities, or were they seriously worried about a lack of protein under Atkins? Posted by: Paid for by Citizens for Clyde the Orangutan at November 22, 2013 02:22 PM (QF8uk) The worry wasn't lack of protein, it was about how to get the most protein in the least amount of consumption. This is what led to my wheezing.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at November 22, 2013 10:29 AM (VtjlW)

278 273 Crystal Gale Magnum did one thing. She made three Duke Lacrosse Players very rich. Duke settled with for $12 mill each and they are STILL suing City of Durham and expect to win a shit pot there. Word is the City will have to increase the property tax to pay the judgement. That $12 mill is tax free. --- What about the other kids on the team, such as the ones who didn't attend the party? There were a number of them who ended up having lucrative job offers pulled because of bad PR from the whole clusterfuck.

Posted by: Brandon In Baton Rouge at November 22, 2013 10:29 AM (/Crba)

279 "You mean you missed it? T'was a beautiful sight to behold. All the gamboling about & trampolining.... Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2013 02:28 PM"


Careful...he'll be in his bunk for weeks.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 22, 2013 10:29 AM (knoK7)

280 McConnell said the Tea Party was ‘nothing but a bunch of bullies,’” the source said. “And he said ‘you know how you deal with schoolyard bullies? You punch them in the nose and that’s what we’re going to do Posted by: Dr Spank at November 22, 2013 02:28 PM (P1WNR) *sly grin* If you feel froggy, then jump.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2013 10:30 AM (da5Wo)

281 Duke settled with for $12 mill each and they are STILL suing City of Durham and expect to win a shit pot there.

Did they sue NiFong directly? Where is he now?

Posted by: Jean at November 22, 2013 10:30 AM (CMlD4)

282

Just getting here, so I'm sure someone else has covered it already...

 

Drew, you're doing the math wrong.  That's 1.1 million self-employed rich Republicans versus 80 thousand poor, helpless Democrats. 

 

One far outweighs the other. 

Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2013 10:30 AM (TOk1P)

283 So, in scanning through the comments I missed, I just need to know two things....is MWR pantsless and has AtC joined her?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2013 02:25 PM (da5Wo)



*strategically situated behind a sofa*   I plead the fifth.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 10:31 AM (4df7R)

284 T.B.D.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLg4h-WmSPs

Posted by: LIVE at November 22, 2013 02:07 PM (Sc8YH)

*



Excellent.



Posted by: dananjcon at November 22, 2013 10:31 AM (wmU4G)

285 279 That $12 mill is tax free. Posted by: Nip Sip That's it! I need to go back to school, learn how to play lacrosse and hang out with murderous hookers. --- You want to join the Archers Of Loaf Cross?

Posted by: Sterling Mallory Archer at November 22, 2013 10:31 AM (/Crba)

286 Did they sue NiFong directly? Where is he now? In the Obama administration, setting foreign policy.

Posted by: Paid for by Citizens for Clyde the Orangutan at November 22, 2013 10:31 AM (QF8uk)

287 Excellent.

Posted by: dananjcon at November 22, 2013 02:31 PM (wmU4G)

 

 

Isn't it, though?   Completely different band when they play acoustic.

Posted by: garrett at November 22, 2013 10:32 AM (Sc8YH)

288

284 -

 

If there is justice in this world, he's serving as an assistant crack whore somewhere. 

Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2013 10:32 AM (TOk1P)

289 insert photoshop of Obama as Slim Pickens riding a thermonuclear bomb

Blasphemer!

At least Slim actually was killing commies.

Posted by: DaveA[/i][/b][/s] at November 22, 2013 10:32 AM (DL2i+)

290 *strategically situated behind a sofa* I plead the fifth. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at November 22, 2013 02:31 PM (4df7R) As do I. Woot! I finished a task! Annnnd then I got a paper cut putting the thing in an envelope. I give up.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at November 22, 2013 10:32 AM (VtjlW)

291 *strategically situated behind a sofa* I plead the fifth. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at November 22, 2013 02:31 PM (4df7R) Nah baby, didn't you hear? The Constitution is dead.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2013 10:32 AM (da5Wo)

292 @281 The school settled with them for about $100k each if I remember correctly. The coach sued too, he got fired. His settlement is not public. Dukes endowment is $5.5 BILLION. They won't miss the money.

Posted by: Nip Sip at November 22, 2013 10:32 AM (0FSuD)

293 I got my divorce papers from my medical outfit, in CA 1 month ago... Waiting for the other shoe too drop.. Kinda like being stuck on the Bay Bridge for 2 hours after eating 3 Bran Muffins and Drinking 2 pots of Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee.

Posted by: 7 Days in May at November 22, 2013 10:32 AM (j6DTo)

294 Those people are moving to Texas anyway.… It’s the predicted ‘California Proposition 30 Boom’ Texas really needs annual ads—just before elections—reminding people why the hell they moved. And then an orangutan saying “Right turn, Clyde.” Posted by: Paid for by Citizens for Clyde the Orangutan at November 22, 2013 01:57 PM (QF8uk) Works for me!

Posted by: LASue at November 22, 2013 10:32 AM (gjIQF)

295 Have you noticed that "holiday" is used interchangeably with Christmas in ads?

As in, "For holiday this year...."

I refuse to buy Christmas presents from any website or catalog that does not use the word Christmas. And I email them to tell them why I'm not buying.

Posted by: PJ at November 22, 2013 10:33 AM (ZWaLo)

296 Woot! I finished a task! Annnnd then I got a paper cut putting the thing in an envelope. I give up. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at November 22, 2013 02:32 PM (VtjlW) Whatever I'm laughing at, it's not you. Swearsies.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2013 10:33 AM (da5Wo)

297 Kinda like being stuck on the Bay Bridge for 2 hours after eating 3 Bran Muffins and Drinking 2 pots of Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee. --- I see what you did there.

Posted by: Charlie McKenzie at November 22, 2013 10:34 AM (/Crba)

298 Did they sue NiFong directly? Where is he now? Posted by: Jean at November 22, 2013 02:30 PM (CMlD4) Yes, but Nifong, UNC-CH grad, declared bankruptcy after he was convicted of perjury. They got a judgement, but no money. He put everything he had, not much in his wife's name. He was disbarred and I am not sure what he is doing, but there is a guy downtown that panhandles that looks a lot like him.

Posted by: Nip Sip at November 22, 2013 10:35 AM (0FSuD)

299 Woot! I finished a task! Annnnd then I got a paper cut putting the thing in an envelope. I give up.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at November 22, 2013 02:32 PM (VtjlW)


Was it fromt aking the post-it off your forehead?   Because those things hurt like   a mofo when they attack.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 10:35 AM (4df7R)

300 That's it! I need to go back to school, learn how to play lacrosse and hang out with murderous hookers.

---

You want to join the Archers Of Loaf Cross? Posted by: Sterling Mallory Archer


Do you have a brochure you could send me?

Posted by: Dang at November 22, 2013 10:35 AM (YWXTN)

301 29 Juan Williams was on The Five last night, and he was beside himself because he was invited to the WH for the journo-bully-talk. He was as proud as a peacock to drop "Jarrett's" name; that he had spoken to her, personally. I liked when Greg Gutfeld asked Williams what President Jarrett had to say. Gutfeld kills me.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at November 22, 2013 10:35 AM (7ObY1)

302 "About 33 percent of Americans surveyed in the past week said they had a favorable opinion" of the PP CACA Act...said the Menlo Park, California-based nonprofit research group. ... “In the long term really what’s going to drive ...the public judgment, is how well the law works and whether people like the coverage,” Drew Altman, the foundation’s chief executive officer, said in a telephone interview. HAHAHAHAHAHA. Yep -- It's doomed.

Posted by: LASue at November 22, 2013 10:37 AM (gjIQF)

303
*strategically situated behind a sofa* I plead the fifth.
Posted by: MWR



You're supposed to take the cushions off the couch, and use them to build an impregnable fortress under the coffee-table.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at November 22, 2013 10:37 AM (kdS6q)

304 Insurance? I wonder why Loyd's of London doesn't come up with some sort of policy for those who pay the penalty and tell O to get fucked?

Posted by: Nip Sip at November 22, 2013 10:37 AM (0FSuD)

305 Excellent.

Posted by: dananjcon at November 22, 2013 02:31 PM (wmU4G) Isn't it, though? Completely different band when they play acoustic.

Posted by: garrett at November 22, 2013 02:32 PM (Sc8YH)

*



Either way always a fave. Even dig their newer stuff, Black Mountain. Haven't heard anything wiht the new singer, Shinn?


 


Posted by: dananjcon at November 22, 2013 10:38 AM (wmU4G)

306 You're supposed to take the cushions off the couch, and use them to build an impregnable fortress under the coffee-table.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix

There's been a breach by the ottoman!  WE NEED MORE BLANKETS!!!

Posted by: Dang, getting really panicky at November 22, 2013 10:39 AM (YWXTN)

307 He was disbarred and I am not sure what he is doing, but there is a guy downtown that panhandles that looks a lot like him. Someone should walk up to the guy and kick him in the nuts, just in case.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at November 22, 2013 10:39 AM (VVsZ2)

308

polynikes, perhaps as I'm a policy-geek at heart (or maybe because I'm rational and analytical, ya know, for stuff that needs that sort of thing, as opposed to sports or fashion or movies), the point you were getting at is among the things that alienates and infuriates and amazes me the most.

 

The best health care system in the world (whose flaws were entirely borrowed trouble from federal and state regulation) is being detonated so that ...... a tiny outlying category of "beneficiaries" can be helped.  WTF?

 

Exactly how many households declare bankruptcy each year due to medical expenditure?  It cannot be statistically significant on a national basis.  And they can be helped, directly, easily and cheaply (by national standards). 

 

Again - the 2010 Census had what, 32 million uninsured?  Subtract the voluntarily uninsured (using common sense analysis based on the income levels and age groups involved) and I believe you get down to around 10 - 12 million INvoluntarialy uninsured - maybe.  Even that group has to be looked at.  Surely many of those are voluntarily uninsured, if only through incompetence, laziness, or mental disorder.  And THOSE people are covered by so many safety nets nobody who doesn't study the subject can even name them all.

 

Posted by: non-purist at November 22, 2013 10:40 AM (afQnV)

309 Posted by: Nip Sip at November 22, 2013 02:37 PM (0FSuD) Because Health insurance if governed by State Laws... and you would not be able to sell that insurance in those States...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 22, 2013 10:40 AM (lZBBB)

310 309 You're supposed to take the cushions off the couch, and use them to build an impregnable fortress under the coffee-table. Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix There's been a breach by the ottoman! WE NEED MORE BLANKETS!!! --- Your authority is not recognized in FORT KICKASS!

Posted by: Doctor Krieger at November 22, 2013 10:40 AM (/Crba)

311 So the California insurance board decided they didn't want a possible charge of misfeasance/malfeasance in office to be following them around?  Shocked that they are smart enough to see that.  I mean - how much leverage would Obama have over them if he revealed that he can prosecute them for this if they don't agree to his next step?  Why leave yourself vulnerable to blackmail?

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Death Capades - ObamaCare on Ice! Sponsored by the Outrage Outlet at November 22, 2013 10:41 AM (hLRSq)

312
As an aside, I admit up front that I know nothing about physics & trajectories and body reactions, but damn if that Kennedy head shot doesn't seem to come from his front right side.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 22, 2013 10:42 AM (iGPSR)

313 Posted by: non-purist at November 22, 2013 02:40 PM (afQnV) And note... the Census data for insurance did not differentiate between Citizen, Legal, or illegal Immigrant. As I believe we probably have in the order of 20-30 million ILLEGAL immigrants... that pretty much covers those who do not have insurance... And Illegals will still not have insurance under Obamacare.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 22, 2013 10:43 AM (lZBBB)

314 Juan Williams, Professional Tool.

Posted by: dananjcon at November 22, 2013 10:43 AM (wmU4G)

315

I have not listened to the newest Live album.

  I am awaiting delivery of the re-press of Throwing Copper, though.

Posted by: garrett at November 22, 2013 10:44 AM (Sc8YH)

316 Because Health insurance if governed by State Laws... and you would not be able to sell that insurance in those States... Posted by: Romeo13 at November 22, 2013 02:40 PM (lZBBB) I thought about that, but Loyd's sells policy outside the state, aka riders, etc on all sorts of stuff. They are off shore. Don't think your local insurance commissioner is going to have much say in London. Loyd's is basically a group of gamblers that will insure any fucking thing that they can figure out a reasonable risk on. Why not my catastrophic health risks?

Posted by: Nip Sip at November 22, 2013 10:44 AM (0FSuD)

317 "McConnell said the Tea Party was ‘nothing but a bunch of bullies,’” the source said. “And he said ‘you know how you deal with schoolyard bullies? You punch them in the nose and that’s what we’re going to do.'" Go for it, you son of a bitch. You don't have a problem going after someone that's supposed to be on your side, but when it comes to opposing Democrats, what passes for spine in your body melts as quickly as an ice cube tossed into a pot of boiling water. Fucking asshole.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at November 22, 2013 10:45 AM (VVsZ2)

318 Hahahaha!  I was right.  Crystal Magnum did get all stabby with her boyfriend.

Posted by: Dang - I looked it up so you don't have to! at November 22, 2013 10:45 AM (YWXTN)

319 I still would like the Republican members of the House to, every Friday in that 'sweet spot' between quitting time and 'first round', to have a vote to repeal ObamaCare. Every f*cking week between now and the next election. A purity test, to get my lazy ass to the polls and vote to re-elect them.

Posted by: Lace Wigs [/i] at November 22, 2013 10:46 AM (UL/Aj)

320 McConnell said the Tea Party was ‘nothing but a bunch of bullies,’” the source said. “And he said ‘you know how you deal with schoolyard bullies? You punch them in the nose and that’s what we’re going to do Posted by: Dr Spank at November 22, 2013 02:28 PM (P1WNR) Yep. The image in my head? soupe à la tortue

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at November 22, 2013 10:46 AM (IXrOn)

321 "Oh and if you're keeping score... Covered California has signed up 80,000 uninsured and forced 1.1 million out of their plans. That means there are 1,020,000 MORE uninsured people in California now than before this whole thing started. Welcome to Liberal World! Posted by DrewM. at 01:31 PM Comments" Liberal world is clearly awful and all, but this is an exaggeration we shouldn't allow ourselves to be caught making. While true 1.1 million Californians have lost their old policies many of those will, or already have, resign with their current insurers under new plans. While more people are definitely going to ultimately end up losing their coverage then gaining coverage, it won't be everyone that got dropped from their old plans, and didn't migrate to the exchanges, losing insurance. But those who renew directly with their insurers are still hopping mad at their rate and deductible hikes.

Posted by: NotCoach at November 22, 2013 10:47 AM (rsudF)

322 McConnell said the Tea Party was ‘nothing but a bunch of bullies,’” the
source said. “And he said ‘you know how you deal with schoolyard
bullies? You punch them in the nose and thatÂ’s what weÂ’re going to do


"the source said"  Hmm.

Posted by: Dang at November 22, 2013 10:47 AM (YWXTN)

323 Posted by: NotCoach at November 22, 2013 02:47 PM (rsudF) Yeah, but first, they aren't going to sign up with their insurers because second, the new prices are insane.

Posted by: AmishDude at November 22, 2013 10:48 AM (T0NGe)

324 315 Guy Mohawk at November 22, 2013 02:42 PM (iGPSR)

Nope....

yes it looks that way in motion but slowed down he goes forward as he suffers the incision and then recoils into his back as a neurological response...

http://youtu.be/gJIlrcGxHyo

warning graphic....

there is footage of Nazi death squads shooting people getting the same response.

Posted by: sven at November 22, 2013 10:48 AM (9jfyN)

325 At least the first three years of this junk law has a built in unlimited bailout for the insurance companies. Os it doesn't mean diddly what the numbers or the ratios are. We pay for it anyhow. I really,really,really hope that people who don't want anything to do with politics somehow gather enough internal combustion to show up come 2014.

Posted by: Drider at November 22, 2013 10:49 AM (/VmYa)

326 We have forseen the rise of the Tea Party.


The Tea Party must not transmute the primary ballot of life.


Posted by: Guild Navigator Mitch McConnell's Neck Fat at November 22, 2013 10:49 AM (GQ8sn)

327

315 -

 

Yes, it's true.  You don't know anything about physics, etc.

 

Here's the honest to gosh truth: anybody who is talking about grassy knolls is already showing their ignorance.  Anything they have to say beyond that is pure, unadulterated nonsense. 

Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2013 10:49 AM (TOk1P)

328 "326 Posted by: NotCoach at November 22, 2013 02:47 PM (rsudF) Yeah, but first, they aren't going to sign up with their insurers because second, the new prices are insane. Posted by: AmishDude at November 22, 2013 02:48 PM (T0NGe) " Some will.

Posted by: NotCoach at November 22, 2013 10:49 AM (rsudF)

329 I am awaiting delivery of the re-press of Throwing Copper, though. --- Gotta live, gotta live gotta live in SHIT TOWN

Posted by: Detroit residents at November 22, 2013 10:50 AM (/Crba)

330 Every f*cking week between now and the next election. A purity test, to get my lazy ass to the polls and vote to re-elect them. Posted by: Lace Wigs

Yep.  Then they can site numerous attempts to repeal it.  Because the longer this goes,  the more people will realize repeal is the only fix.

Posted by: Dang at November 22, 2013 10:50 AM (YWXTN)

331 there is footage of Nazi death squads shooting people getting the same response. JFK WAS KILLED WITH NAZI BULLETS!!!!

Posted by: NO. at November 22, 2013 10:51 AM (QF8uk)

332 "About 33 percent of Americans surveyed in the past week said they had a favorable opinion" of the PP CACA Act


...


ISWYDT

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 10:51 AM (4df7R)

333 Back, and to the left. Back, and to the left. Back, and to the left.

Posted by: toby928© Jesus is coming, look busy at November 22, 2013 10:51 AM (QupBk)

334 *shinkicks BC* Was it fromt aking the post-it off your forehead? Because those things hurt like a mofo when they attack. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at November 22, 2013 02:35 PM (4df7R) No, this was When Envelopes Attack.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at November 22, 2013 10:51 AM (VtjlW)

335

"That's it! I need to go back to school, learn how to play lacrosse and hang out with murderous hookers."

 

 

 

The Secret Service is hiring.

 

Oh and drinking. Don't forget that.

Posted by: Julia Pierson at November 22, 2013 10:52 AM (H84UO)

336 What?!?!? I've deserved many a shinkickings, but not that one.

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2013 10:52 AM (da5Wo)

337

@285 Drew, you're doing the math wrong. That's 1.1 million self-employed rich Republicans versus 80 thousand poor, helpless Democrats.

One far outweighs the other.

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

 

In California?

 

Bwahahahahahahahaha!

 

Posted by: junior at November 22, 2013 10:52 AM (UWFpX)

338 Washington State's Insurance Commissioner announced they're rejecting the "fix" by Obama too.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b] at November 22, 2013 10:52 AM (sByIH)

339

OK orangutans, I'ma gonna  go crawl around under my truck for a while   to see if I can track down that frayed wire that's   still causing the ECM  fuse to blow.

 

That will be followed by a celebratory  trip to the liquor store.

 

 Y'all have fun and try  not to trash the place, 'k?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit [/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 10:53 AM (0HooB)

340

327 -

 

The funny thing is, I've looked at the Kennedy videos so many times, I can run them in my head without needing the benefit of youtube. 

 

It's even funnier when you watch one of  the grassy knoll conspiracy films.  Idjits, all of 'em.  Funniest of all?  The ones who put out the close-up of  the driver who supposedly had a special super duper raygun type thing he fired just before  the head went splody. 

 

Do you know what it was, actually?  The shiny thing they caught on video?

Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2013 10:53 AM (TOk1P)

341 What?!?!? I've deserved many a shinkickings, but not that one. Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2013 02:52 PM (da5Wo) *raises brow* Are you questioning the cromulence of your shinkicking?

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at November 22, 2013 10:53 AM (VtjlW)

342 Crystal Gale Magnum did one thing. She made three Duke Lacrosse Players very rich.

Duke settled with for $12 mill each and they are STILL suing City of Durham and expect to win a shit pot there. Word is the City will have to increase the by I Want This">property tax to pay the judgement.

That $12 mill is tax free.
-
That completely destroys my world view. I was convinced that going to an ivy league wasn't worth the money.

.

Posted by: WalrusRex at November 22, 2013 10:53 AM (Hx5uv)

343 Is everyone enjoying the little pop up screen as much as I do?

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at November 22, 2013 10:54 AM (R8hU8)

344 As an aside, I admit up front that I know nothing about physics trajectories and body reactions, but damn if that Kennedy head shot doesn't seem to come from his front right side. Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 22, 2013 02:42 PM (iGPSR) Correct me if I'm wrong but that mass of flesh appeared to be the exit wound... shot came from behind and left. screen wise top left to bottom right.

Posted by: cajun caret at November 22, 2013 10:55 AM (UZQM8)

345 346 Is everyone enjoying the little pop up screen as much as I do? AdBlock must find it delicious.

Posted by: akula51[/b][/i][/s] at November 22, 2013 10:55 AM (l2h4p)

346 No, this was When Envelopes Attack.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at November 22, 2013 02:51 PM (VtjlW)



OUCH.



Well, at least it wasn't "when thin sheets of cardboard or card stock attack," right?  Silver linings?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 10:55 AM (4df7R)

347 Posted by: Nip Sip at November 22, 2013 02:44 PM (0FSuD) Problem is that Doctors would have to sign up... and THEY are also governed by State Law. The Health industry is no where near a Free Enterprise system... it was already one of the most regulated and Lawyerized industries we have... The only way a Concierge Doctor would work, is if they have a rich backer... and take cash payments from the Rich... ie... like the TV show Royal Pains... IMO won't work for Real people.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 22, 2013 10:55 AM (lZBBB)

348 BB, Did you get the gig?

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at November 22, 2013 10:55 AM (R8hU8)

349 Is everyone enjoying the little pop up screen as much as I do?

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at November 22, 2013 02:54 PM (R8hU



Ace said it was worrisome, since there are no ads in the comments section of the site.   So whatever you do, don't click it.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 10:56 AM (4df7R)

350 Why didn't you people stop me from leaving the house?? It was icky out there. Traffic accidents and a guy who literally played chicken with an emergency vehicle. That was amazing, in a really bad way. Anybody knowledgeable about bicycles?

Posted by: Mama AJ at November 22, 2013 10:56 AM (SUKHu)

351 "McConnell said the Tea Party was ‘nothing but a bunch of bullies,’” the source said. “And he said ‘you know how you deal with schoolyard bullies? You punch them in the nose and that’s what we’re going to do.'"

Go for it, you son of a bitch. You don't have a problem going after someone that's supposed to be on your side, but when it comes to opposing Democrats, what passes for spine in your body melts as quickly as an ice cube tossed into a pot of boiling water.

Fucking asshole.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at November 22, 2013 02:45 PM (VVsZ2)


Well it's no wonder i am beginning to feel disdain for those purportedly on our side. You're right He seems to care more about fighting someone like me than those He should be fighting.

Posted by: willow at November 22, 2013 10:56 AM (nqBYe)

352

340 -

 

Thank you, you're a terrific audience.  Tip your waiters, try the veal.  I'll be here all week. 

Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2013 10:57 AM (TOk1P)

353 Are you questioning the cromulence of your shinkicking? Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at November 22, 2013 02:53 PM (VtjlW) I am, humbling suggesting that it was merely a premature shinkicking. I'm sure I'll deserve one here shortly. Btw, working here is ocassionally like working with the Horde. I'm wheeling the big trashcan down the hallway collecting trash from all the offices to go dump in our dumpster. Standard Friday thing. I get to grandpa's office and kick the trashcan a couple times and yell "Bring out your dead!" "What??" "Bring out your dead!" *turns around quickly* "My what???" "YOUR DEAD, grandpa. It was a joke." "Oooohhh. I thought you said to bring out my dick." "............................"

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2013 10:57 AM (da5Wo)

354 343 BurtTC at November 22, 2013 02:53 PM (TOk1P)

His Smasung Galaxy given he was a man in black?

No his watch IIRC the agents finally spoke out...


Posted by: sven at November 22, 2013 10:57 AM (9jfyN)

355 Anybody knowledgeable about bicycles? Posted by: Mama AJ

I have some artistic photos I could send you from my blog.

Posted by: Charles at November 22, 2013 10:57 AM (YWXTN)

356 Why didn't you people stop me from leaving the house??


Posted by: Mama AJ at November 22, 2013 02:56 PM (SUKHu)



Sorry.  


If we could get ace to    loan us the time machine he doesn't have, we could go back in time and stop you.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 10:57 AM (4df7R)

357 341 Washington State's Insurance Commissioner announced they're rejecting the "fix" by Obama too. Weren't they the first?

Posted by: AmishDude at November 22, 2013 10:58 AM (T0NGe)

358 "Oooohhh. I thought you said to bring out my dick."

"............................"

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Credible Hulk at November 22, 2013 02:57 PM (da5Wo)



LOL!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/u][/i][/s][/b] at November 22, 2013 10:58 AM (4df7R)

359 I used to hear all these things about how the best snipers in the world couldn't make the shot. Then I learned to shoot and realized that it was a simple shot with a rifle. Almost harder to miss than hit, especially firing twice. Less than a hundred yards is barely enough to tell if you're zeroed.

Posted by: Lincolntf at November 22, 2013 10:58 AM (ZshNr)

360 alex. band-aide  and a nice warm glass of buttered rum.

Posted by: willow at November 22, 2013 10:58 AM (nqBYe)

361 Posted by: Nip Sip at November 22, 2013 02:37 PM (0FSuD) Just like offshore gambling winnings are monitored by the IRS, I think Lloyd's medical insurance payments would be monitored and probably intercepted. Besides, cash payments to doctors will be forbidden in the very near future. In fact, I foresee a new form of voucher payments, MediBucks, issued by the government in the amount your plan allows you to spend.

Posted by: Hrothgar Establishment RINO at November 22, 2013 10:59 AM (XdnQT)

362 Nude scorpion post

Posted by: toby928© Jesus is coming, look busy at November 22, 2013 10:59 AM (QupBk)

363 >>Well, at least it wasn't "when thin sheets of cardboard or card stock attack," right? Stuck my hand in my pocket the other day where I had a ticket of some kind in there. It took a while to stop bleeding. Takes real talent to hurt yourself putting your hand in your pocket...

Posted by: Mama AJ at November 22, 2013 10:59 AM (SUKHu)

364 Why didn't you people stop me from leaving the house??



Weren't those JFK's last words?

Posted by: Dang - I looked it up so you don't have to! at November 22, 2013 10:59 AM (YWXTN)

365

347 -

 

It can get complicated when you start talking about tragectories, but suffice it to say, each round that was fired that day came from behind the vehicle. 

 

If you leave it at that, you  will not be wrong.  

Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2013 11:00 AM (TOk1P)

366 347 cajun caret at November 22, 2013 02:55 PM (UZQM

Yup and it was quite a profound wound....

http://youtu.be/vVPRV_j71CM

WARNING GRAPHIC EXCLUSIVE JFK's Animated Autopsy Photo's Don't click if not inclined and I am not arguing the autopsy was high quality, but uh you can see it is a side wound not a rear from front entry wound.

Posted by: sven at November 22, 2013 11:00 AM (9jfyN)

367 The "bullies" remark is from Rand Paul talking about Harry Reid.  I seem to recall him mentioning the "punch in the nose" before as well.  That ill-sourced remark does not seen like McConnell, for all his faults.

Posted by: Mustbequantum at November 22, 2013 11:00 AM (MIKMs)

368

Weren't those JFK's last words?

 

I don't know but LBJ had his fingers in his ears

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at November 22, 2013 11:00 AM (R8hU8)

369 BB, Did you get the gig? Posted by: Velvet Ambition BB said he did. Complete with happy dance.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2013 11:01 AM (ix+5k)

370 Less than a hundred yards is barely enough to tell if you're zeroed. The site is very small, much smaller than you would think if you have only seen the news reels. I think I would have 50/50 chance of hitting Kennedy with a pistol from the TSBR.

Posted by: toby928© Jesus is coming, look busy at November 22, 2013 11:01 AM (QupBk)

371

367 -

 

No, his last words were "who ordered the lasagna?" 

Posted by: BurtTC at November 22, 2013 11:01 AM (TOk1P)

372 BB said he did. Complete with happy dance.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 22, 2013 03:01 PM (ix+5k)

 

- Cool!

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at November 22, 2013 11:02 AM (R8hU8)

373 OK orangutans, I'ma gonna go crawl around under my truck for a while to see if I can track down that frayed wire that's still causing the ECM fuse to blow.

That will be followed by a celebratory trip to the liquor store.

Y'all have fun and try not to trash the place, 'k?

**


Workin on the pick-up truck are ya?? Thats sooo Fly-over and Folksy!!


Posted by: Andrea Michell at November 22, 2013 11:03 AM (wmU4G)

374 373 toby928© Jesus is coming, look busy at November 22, 2013 03:01 PM (QupBk)

Correct and functionally the car was still from an optics standpoint and aim after the initial shot....

the kooks love to pretend that Oswald was Barney Fife...nope he was an above average Military Marksman and contrary to legend it was not a horrifically complex shot.

85% of military trained shooters testes could replicate or go better than Oswald on a simulated test... hell civilians replicated the shots in '67 for CBS...

http://youtu.be/WovyEqfR8Hg

Posted by: sven at November 22, 2013 11:05 AM (9jfyN)

375 The "bullies" remark is from Rand Paul talking about Harry Reid. I seem to recall him mentioning the "punch in the nose" before as well. That ill-sourced remark does not seen like McConnell, for all his faults. Posted by: Mustbequantum

Thank you,  sir.  It stinks to me as well.  The dems are trying to create more disunity on the right.

Posted by: Dang at November 22, 2013 11:06 AM (YWXTN)

376 378 Dang at November 22, 2013 03:06 PM (YWXTN)

I was about to say "how could a democrat be at a GOP meeting with the Rovians?"

then I remembered we have several including Graham and McCain who have star seats.

Posted by: sven at November 22, 2013 11:09 AM (9jfyN)

377 @350 No, doctors won't have to sign up any more than repair shops would have to sign up for your car insurance. Loyd's makes a cash payment, you do with it what you want. Get your dr or repair where ever you want.

Posted by: Nip Sip at November 22, 2013 11:11 AM (0FSuD)

378 @364 I don't see how you could "intercept" a payment on insurance. As to stopping Dr from excepting cash, I am sure the Drs in Costa Rica or the Bahama's will love that idea. How do prevent a person from expecting payment for a service? Threaten to take their license?

Posted by: Nip Sip at November 22, 2013 11:14 AM (0FSuD)

379 I don't see how you could "intercept" a payment on insurance. As to stopping Dr from excepting cash, I am sure the Drs in Costa Rica or the Bahama's will love that idea.  Posted by: Nip Sip


You don't have to go that far.  Ever seen those riverboat casinos?  Think riverboat hospitals.  The docs are already talking about it.

Posted by: Dang at November 22, 2013 11:19 AM (YWXTN)

380 Oh and if you're keeping score... Welcome to Liberal World! Posted by DrewM. Liberal Piracy Through Governance FUSION...Republicans aid and abed Democrats Forget about it, Jake. It's Obamaland. Deal.

Posted by: panzernashorn at November 22, 2013 11:45 AM (MhA4j)

381 The dems are trying to create more disunity on the right. They can't do any worse than the Republican establishment's efforts.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at November 22, 2013 11:46 AM (VVsZ2)

Hide Comments | Add Comment | Refresh | Top

Comments are disabled. Post is locked.
279kb generated in CPU 0.228, elapsed 0.4468 seconds.
64 queries taking 0.3731 seconds, 509 records returned.
Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink.

Support





Donate to Ace of Spades HQ!


Contact

Change the At to "@" and the DOT to "."




Intermarkets' Privacy Policy
Support


Donate to Ace of Spades HQ!


Search Thingy



Archives

Monthly Traffic

  • Pages: 145518
  • Files: 1743
  • Bytes: 4.6G
  • CPU Time: 141:36
  • Queries: 4189195

Content

  • Posts: 22824
  • Comments: 5930392

Feeds


RSS 2.0 Atom 1.0